If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society or what is worse looking as if he stifled grief.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

A simple compliment goes a really long way - for a guy to just come over and say 'You have great hair' or 'I really like your dress ' and then just smile and walk away. That's a great move because he's sort of putting himself out there by doing that but it won't lead to any embarrassment if the girl isn't interested.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too if he could.

I have no right by anything I do or say to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

The artist himself may not think he is religious but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.