He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with – by himself or with his team, and place the...

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

Stop!” Narcissus got to his feet. “This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be…” He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he’d...

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn’t completely understood… he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he’s done good and made things easy for everybody? That ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest……and...

It doesn’t help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it’s the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can’t cover himself with words, he can’t create a wall.

Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes...

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord’s pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put...

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has self-respect and self-confidence.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can’t say himself.

I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or...

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

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.