I. H. Richardson Quotes

Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat!

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person

Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.

No matter where you work or how you feel about the place, bless it with love.

Trust in Divine timing. Your future holds something far greater than your past.

The most powerful tool that I can share with you to transform any situation is the power of blessing with love. No matter where you work or how you feel about the place, bless it with love.

And there are times that you got to speak up, and you’ve got to call things what they are!

Never underestimate the power of intention.

Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!

That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!

Schedule a sacred date with yourself. You deserve time for your life.

If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?

Affirmation plus action equals miracles.

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.