Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.