In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention..

An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terri….

There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required..

If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with..

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion..

Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship or enmity. Se….

Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which….

When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we….

Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed..

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milto….

The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent..

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civiliza….

An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that's what happens to all surg….

I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties, self-imag….

There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often d….

I am daily making myself what I am..

Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance a….

It takes a tremen­dous act of courage to admit to your­self that you are not defec­tive in any way what­so­ever..

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are..