A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I’m always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.

The Occupy movement is – it was a big surprise.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

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.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

The most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘