It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

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’m quite a chauvinistic person.

I’m an emotional person.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Action is character.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

There are some loony people in this world!

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Desire is the very essence of man.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.