Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
A man’s kiss is his signature.
Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause.
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.
Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
I’m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don’t think there’s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man’s bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they’re not well manicured, you’ve got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don’t want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.
The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
When you snatch little pieces of other people’s lives and try to palm them off as your own, that’s more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
