Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for – that he was in favor of amnesty.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of...

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don’t see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on ‘Jewishness.’

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply...

I never try to show an actor what to do or what to say. He has to find out for himself. The role of the director is to guide him to that state, and then...

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan’s bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What...

I think R. Kelly’s range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like...

Obama’s foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any...

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

British people might wonder ‘What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing ‘Thor?’ but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself...

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear,...

I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

‘2016’ is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I’m not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public...

A man’s opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have...

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

If a cow walked into this room, I’d probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it...

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you’re this martial arts expert, but really I’m just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it’s probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it’s hard...

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his...

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.