Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

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