Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.
But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.
It takes more courage to be yourself than to live in the prison of ego with feelings of guilt. It takes a lot more courage to be happy than to be unhappy.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.
It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.
Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
I'm more insecure than I ever let anyone know; sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.
I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.
The mind is more powerful than ever, and you have more control over it than you ever think.
I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.
every woman is beautiful beyond what a magazine can see, whether she's a size larger than 10 or a size smaller than 3.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
