People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Thomas S. Szasz
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
Edmund Burke
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one`s work seriously and taking one`s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest
Bertrand Russell