If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you..
I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others..
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to ad….
Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousn….
Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factor….
You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people..
We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history, or with….
Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love..
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self..
There is no real lasting joy in self-seeking..
In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal..
Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being tru….
We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire to revere and envy others….
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in..
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; t….
I spent my days on the riverbanks, in the woods, in the fields, shooting, hunting and stalking. I unravelled everything within my life. Self discover….
There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is….
I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough ….
As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family mys….
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation..
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest..