Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I’ll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don’t believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.
Eve was not taken out of Adam’s head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won’t be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man’s political hopes and the ark of his safety.
God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
