Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable bu….

If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental ….

The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott ….

Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is ….

People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to ac….

A Creator is vision-focused and passion-motivated. To really live into your Creator self, you are called to do the inner work necessary to find your ….

Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in th….

I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkn….

It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can b….

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably alre….

Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epi….

I am unable to rule anything out..

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation..

Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is not….

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity..

Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, a….

I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no ….

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes..

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

As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a mul….

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all..