Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
There will be no name-calling when I disagree with anyone, no disparaging remarks toward anyone, no taking sole credit for collective achievements or blaming others when things go wrong.
Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.
I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I know that, by my ill-considered and immature works, I have brought distress to many and that I have even provoked others to attack me openly and, in general, have produced displeasure in many.
Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener.
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
