The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection..
I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is ove….
At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable..
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no thought, 'I have attai….
To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectu….
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge..
Armstrong lives as he rides - surrounded by a cocoon of aides and helpers, his gimlet eyes focused on victory.... The self-described atheist has beco….
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of e….
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word..
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination..
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss someth….
Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring..
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, ….
I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. Th….
Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient..
An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not di….
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth..
Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of hi….
A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world..
Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want to change in others than ….
I can't remember ever being really bored. I find life very interesting, actually. I think some other musicians are always looking for something to gi….