“Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.”
Susan Sontag
“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”
Barbara De Angelis
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
Benjamin Franklin
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Oscar Wilde
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.”
Ethel Barrymore
