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• There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
  We are all a patchwork, so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game....
• We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
• We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it.
  We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-governme...
• Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
• The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows up to othe
  but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause, in the opinion of the world, when we too passionately and eagerly defend it....
• It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his natio
  hat the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole....
• Every person is an individual; we all have a set of designer genes.
• If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. -- E.M. Ciora