Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around..

Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and iso….

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The ch….

The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs to se….

Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good for the wider civilization an….

But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home produce….

No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again, the mo….

Meditation is listening to the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling the fragrance of the inner Spirit, experiencing ….

Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts ... 'I always do what pleases God.' ... Was this conceit? Or was it enlightened creativity and ….

The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain….

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community..

I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' ….

What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the sa….

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who li….

Many of us struggle with ideas that come to our head from our self-identification..

I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding ci….

One is what one remembers: no more, no less..

The self...can split off from itself without being less. You are not a mini self, an adjunct to some super-being, never to share fully in its reality….

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split secon….

What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?.

In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of th….