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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

I used to be in my own world and keep to myself all the time, so there may have been a perception about my reserved demeanour that was misconstrued as arrogance. But when people interact with you, then they know the real you.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.