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Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A true man hates no one.

Napoleon Bonaparte

God created man, but I could do better.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.