We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.
But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
We all deserve to be treated with nothing but respect. In order to command respect from others, we must first and foremost respect ourselves.
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
We many times sell ourselves short, not only in relationships but throughout our own lives. Hopefully, we come around at some point and realize our own value.
We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
