I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.
This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.
Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.
Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an inevitable corollary to this supreme truth comes the fact of the brotherhood of man.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.
I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after his death, people would talk. They would say 'things' about him and he wouldn't be there to defend himself.
I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've always been very fond of this painter who lived and worked in the 15th century.
People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.
