The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ...

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

Every ass loves to hear himself bray.

Nobody calls himself rogue.

Self is the greatest burden I have to carry.

What lies behind us or before us are tiny matters compared with what lies in us.

What you are is God's gift to you. What you become is your gift to God.

Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves.

The heavy weight of selfhood.

You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.