The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

Man can be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as ones self!

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves.

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.