General consultant to mankind.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

What you guys want, I’m for.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

OVOXO will always be there.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.