Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

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.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

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 cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

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.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

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

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

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

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

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.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

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

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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

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

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

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.

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

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

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

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

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

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.

Man, all lives matter.

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

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.