We only understand that which already is within us..

I'M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty as an officer of ….

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin..

What is power without control?.

No cheating, clean up your self-induced fear act, and replace it with what you love..

Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two wa….

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle..

It is this capacity for relentless self-criticism that should be - everywhere - the true measure of intellectual freedom and cosmopolitanism, not the….

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few..

As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same pattern, ….

No one can get to the Right of me..

There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing..

Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what I did with my poetry, ask people to fe….

If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile..

I'm from such an old family, it's been condemned..

For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The arti….

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, ….

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do….

How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!.

It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the b….

The only thing I can definitely say is that you cease to be self-conscious after you've had to kiss somebody on-camera with 30 people watching..