Isolation is a self-defeating dream..

And nobody had told them that they were short on time..

When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ..

Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control..

… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets ….

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it..

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance..

They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too m….

Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior….

If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic..

Very often we don’t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isn’t so much….

There's nothing I won't attempt..

All matter/space has some degree of "self" in it, and this self, or anyway some aspect of the personal, is something which infuses all matter/space a….

Self-love is the source of all our other loves..

We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God..

In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles..

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier..

These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having power over them. Pe….

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing..

Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer….

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-real….