Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.
I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.