A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Albert Schweitzer

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
Albert Schweitzer

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
Rabindranath Tagore

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Andrew Carnegie

No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Vance Havner

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
Marcel Proust

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Josh Billings

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.
Ringo Starr

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
Mary Wollstonecraft

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
Arthur Schopenhauer