I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

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.

Study to be what you wish to seem.

Study to be what you wish to seem.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

How could I have been anyone other than me?

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is read more

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

He who stops being better stops being good.

He who stops being better stops being good.

I have just about all I can take of myself.

I have just about all I can take of myself.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.