“One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.”

“Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

“I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.”

W. Somerset Maugham book Of Human Bondage

“Nobody else can share this.
Here comes one and one makes one,
The glorious union.
Well it could be love,
Or it could be just lust,
But it will be fun.
It will be wonderful.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.”

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947) American basketball player

“Sometimes a little brain damage can help.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.”

Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children

“That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”

Theodor Reik (1888–1969) austrian-american psychoanalytist