Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues… I’m someone who changes his mind all the time.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There’s a purpose for why you’re in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!
I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‘Here I am. This is me.’ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.
I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
Constantine ‘Costa’ Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.
By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can’t keep goal with hair like that.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he’s a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don’t know, overpowered by his presence. Like he’s a very mystic person. He’s older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff.
A man’s character is his fate.
Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.
The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
