The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society or what is worse looking as if he stifled grief.
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
A simple compliment goes a really long way - for a guy to just come over and say 'You have great hair' or 'I really like your dress ' and then just smile and walk away. That's a great move because he's sort of putting himself out there by doing that but it won't lead to any embarrassment if the girl isn't interested.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too if he could.
I have no right by anything I do or say to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
The artist himself may not think he is religious but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.
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.
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion say or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
If then you are looking for the way by which you should go take Christ because He Himself is the way.
I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.
In the first Spider-Man at the end of the movie Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city.
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
Every man sees in his relatives and especially in his cousins a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.