“Prophecy is first and foremost a self-serving gift.”

“Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

“Who are our enemies and who are our friends? This is the first and foremost question of a revolution and it is also the first and foremost question of the great Cultural Revolution.”

“For me it is always the colour, first and foremost.”

“Don’t turn the truth into a lie using self-fulfilling prophecies.”

“If we see each other as obstacles to progress, our assumption is the first and greatest obstacle. Mistrust is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Our old-paradigm consciousness has guaranteed its own dark expectations; it is our collective negative self-image.”

“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”

“Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.”

“The immigration must be limited, that is, first and foremost the foreign cultural one.”

“Love for life is, first and foremost, a responsibility to enrich it with spirituality and humanism.”