Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.