I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

- Albert Ellis

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

- Aldous Huxley

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

- Anne Sullivan

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

- Ani DiFranco

Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

- Andy Warhol

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

- Amiri Baraka

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

- Amelia Barr

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

- Allen Klein

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

- Abraham Lincoln

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

- Aldous Huxley

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

- Albert Einstein

It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.

- Alan Greenspan

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.

- Agnes Martin

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

- Agatha Christie

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

- Aesop

The gods help them that help themselves.

- Aesop

If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

- Adam McKay