I have just about all I can take of myself.

I have just about all I can take of myself.

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, read more

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.

Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be read more

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The read more

A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having.