All art is self-portraiture..
Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man..
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction..
…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-con….
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power..
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family..
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means ty….
I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just as rea….
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred..
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-decepti….
I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter….
I came up in comics doing lots of DIY self-published stuff, producing my own books, handling all the details of creation and production. And theatre ….
The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People ar….
Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertai….
The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not me….
You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that. If i….
Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect..
The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage..
You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land..
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?.
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering..