We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
Robert HallAbout the Ego. There are two fields in which it operates and so it has two meanings
Sai BabaNo doubt the artist is the child of his time, but woe to him if he is also its disciple or even its favorite.
Friedrich SchillerHe who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue by female lips and eyes - that is I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case at least where I have been, They smile so when one's right, and when one's wrong, They smile still more.
Lord ByronThe laws and the stage both are a form of exhibitionism.
Orson WellesI don't want to believe my own hype.
Christina AguileraWe are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
Mason CooleyIf you don't fail now and again it's a sign you're playing it safe.
Woody AllenThe Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Patrick Henry