“If a man strictly observe the rules of his way, and keep a rein on himself, then no matter what way it be, he will be a scholar of renown and be a teacher of multitudes.”

“Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is Himself the way”

Karl Barth (1886–1968) Swiss Protestant theologian

“The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

“He wasn’t a man who reined in his curiosity well.”

Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States

“No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

“Even though no one else discovers the nonconformity or enforces the rules against it, the individual who has committed the impropriety may himself act as the enforcer. He may brand himself as deviant because of what he has done and punish himself in one way or another for his behavior.”

Howard S. Becker (1928) American sociologist

“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself.”

Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone

“The Lord gives his whole innocent spirit to the Father and keeps only our own sinful spirit back for himself. In this way he can carry sin as if he himself had committed it.”

Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) Swiss doctor and mystic

“No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.”

Chinua Achebe book Things Fall Apart

“And the Reason is this, Every single, Male and Female, is a perfect Creature in himself; and the same Spirit that made thh Globe, dwels in man to Govern the globe; so that the flesh of man being subject to Reason, his Maker, hath him to be his Teacher and Ruler within himself, therefore needs not run abroad after any Teacher or Ruler without him, for he needs not that any man should teach him, for the same Anoynting that ruled in the Son of man, teacheth him all things.”

Gerrard Winstanley (1609–1676) English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist