My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

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

Man, all lives matter.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

God created man, but I could do better.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

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

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

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

I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

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

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

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.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

The little man is still a man.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

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

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

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

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

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

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

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.