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.

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.

Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us...

A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to...

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

I look at a mentor of mine like Ryan Seacrest and the incredible amount of equity he’s been able to bring to the broadcasting arena, and the branding and the world that he’s been able...

When I’m interviewing someone, I want to make sure that he thought enough to take care of himself – to dress appropriately and to groom himself properly.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way...

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson’s Column – pigeons dump on you because you’re there.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.