Whatever religion you believe in, if you take almighty's name and follow his words obediently, you will be safe to an extent.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

People say the top part of my face looks like my dad's and the bottom part like my mom's. I have his eyes and her nose and mouth.

When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

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.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'

The goal of any farmer, after producing enough to feed his own family, has always been to find the best place to sell the year's crop.

Yes, I'm a miserable, wretched sinner, but He loves me. And to Him, I'm His child, and I can walk in that love and that understanding.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

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 dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

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.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

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