One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
Alfred Kazin

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mohandas Gandhi

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
Edsger Dijkstra

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
Patrick McGoohan

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
Laetitia Casta

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
Cyril Cusack

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
John Grierson

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Pablo Picasso

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Testing oneself is best when done alone.
Jimmy Carter

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Vaclav Havel

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Max Born

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
Nicolas de Chamfort

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James A. Baldwin