pride

The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation.

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

If you want to know how negative you are, pay attention to how much you hate negativity in other people. Fragile, artificial positivity needs always to be surrounded by more positivity in order to stay positive, but the ability to be positive, happy, and even, at times, appreciative around 'negative people' is the mark of real positivity.

But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility - the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small - the world will then know peace.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care ofyourself? You bet. But a person who__ willing to work and pay their own waycan at least take pride in that even if they can__ take pride in anything else.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

There is no greater service than that rendered to one__ nation, no greater glory one can seek than that in the name of one__ people.

For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.

Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.

Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.