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• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. -- Seneca
• He doth nothing but talk of his horse; and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts, that he can shoe himself.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• He lifted himself up by his own bootstraps.
• Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray?
  Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart, confess The might, the majesty of loveliness?...
• The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. PAGNOL
• Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12...
• The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act v, Sc. 1...
• MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence
  not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselve...
• Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it.
  However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself....