When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it from top to bottom. By….
Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb s….
I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compul….
You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself..
It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, st….
What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we ….
The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of the….
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings..
Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She….
. . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual….
When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your tal….
That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known..
Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptiv….
Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction..
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been mill….
To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivati….
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of….
[Maigret] is terribly self-contained, not that I would ever wish him to be any more comic, particularly, but in the second film we've made you see he….
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency..
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance..
Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself..