We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along..
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick se….
Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature of their country wort….
no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone..
A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes,….
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this ….
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive..
In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, reli….
Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural, comfortable alone-self wh….
one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident..
There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing….
Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire..
Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a….
I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me..
Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor..
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizem….
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint..
Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been..
My ambition for station was always easily controlled. If the place came to me it was welcome. But it never seemed to me worth seeking at the cost of ….
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical..
As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a….