The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.
I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.
An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to that unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance.
You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations.
Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.
As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been clear that deporting young people who have lived in the U.S. for years and were brought here through no fault of their own as children should not be the targets of deportation.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
