“Take an upright approach to life by recognizing and regulating your wants so you can get what you really WANT!”
Source: The Invisible Four-letter Word: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want in Life.
“The men of Sirupat weren't fighters because they didn't want to be, and in my book there's no higher praise than that--and that's the main reason, when you come to think of it, why women are so infinitely superior to men. But for God's sake don't tell them I said so.”
Source: Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead
“Character is worth more than anything else in the whole wide world.”
Source: Daniel, Man of God: Being a Man of Character in a Babylon World
“A man is not what he possesses but what he does with himself.”
Source: Garden of the Midnights
“John Daly is all the Caddyshack characters in one body. He's a caricature of a person, and that's why I'm a fan.”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“We, the human race, must recognize the truth of—and embrace—the principle of color-blind individualism. We must acknowledge that race does not matter—that skin pigmentation, hair texture, facial bone structure, and so forth—signify zero regarding the only human attribute that does matter: Strength of character.
There is only one race—the human race.”
Source: American Racism: Its Decline, Its Baleful Resurgence, and Our Looming Race War
“Someone has said the test of a person's character is not whether he fails, but rather it's in how he handles that failure.”
“Ethics and morals are primary vitamins and proteins of a healthy character.”
Source: Rep By Rep
“Humbleness is to character what muscular biceps are to a great body.”
Source: Rep By Rep
“Clothes do not make the man, and boys are apt to overlook certain superficial peculiarities and defects which seem more significant to their elders. In Sam Bumpus they saw only a man of good humor and wonderful wisdom, a man whose manner of life was vastly more interesting than that of the common run of people, whose knowledge of the lore of woods and fields, of dogs and hunting, entitled him to a high place in their estimation. They overlooked the externals, the evidence of poverty and shiftlessness, his lack of education, and saw only his native wit and shrewdness, his kinship with the world of nature, and his goodness of heart.”
Source: The Dogs of Boytown