If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.
With each new pair of shoes, each new wrist-watch, each new Walkman or moisture-wicking wonder-material that runners put on, the sport became more alluring to me and to millions of others.
In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gospel. Almost all were recent converts to the Church. Many were attracted to it through the preaching of the Apostle Paul and others.
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.
We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.
There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That's how an institution becomes one.
Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?
Prosperity is right. Amen. We prosper to prosper others. We prosper to prosper God's kingdom, so come believing.
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord.
I learned about forgiveness, and I've reached out to others to make amends.
If we are to assess the rationality of government expenditures to protect the lives of Americans through massive domestic surveillance, we need to compare this program to others aimed at saving American lives.