Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
So many comics have such low self-esteem.
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.