One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.
The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection.
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'
I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
I love Man United, and I will always love Man United. It is not a fake love.
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'
