Why did I sign up for this?”Because we grow by challenging ourselves.

We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the...

I feel like it’s important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

You know, there’s a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it’s misnamed. We’re not so much trying to help people as we’re trying to help ourselves. So let’s be clear...

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves – which is a terrible idea.

The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually – to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves...

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types...

Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this – attack ourselves – every hour of our lives.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There’s the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.