So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.
No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago.
Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.
God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
Violence is man re-creating himself.
As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.
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.
The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.
I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
I like Babyface, but he keeps the good stuff for himself. If he's willing to give his good stuff to me, we'll talk. But it can't be any of his B-grade stuff.
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause to go to trial to then determine if Officer Wilson is guilty or not. It is at trial that he can then defend himself and his attorneys can present their own witnesses and their own defense.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.
For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.
Any promising young white man rich enough to theoretically afford a giant oil painting of himself gets to remain young and innocent forever, and none of his actions have any consequences, whether there is magic involved or not.
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
Donald Trump is defeating himself. He is ensuring that Hillary Clinton is elected. I think they would both be absolutely terrible.
