The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself.
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
