The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Many people who excel are self-taught.
Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.
It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.
But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.