He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature to those who really like to study people is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.
A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
When a man has no reason to trust himself he trusts in luck.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968 I started to think write and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.
I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time he creates a separate identity for himself.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology you need art.
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
If a teacher does not involve himself his values his commitments in the course of discussion why should the students?