F.B. Newman Quotes

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.

You only grow when you are alone.

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

At the beginning of your career, it's 'Who is Paul Newman?' and then it's 'Get me Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Get me a young Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Who is Paul Newman?'

The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort.

There really is no such thing as a sick child; there are children who happen to be sick. Think about it, and you will understand the magic of the Camps

I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission — that's not bad politics, that's robbery.

The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.