The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.

Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.