Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

How hungrily we read about ourselves!

They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is fully calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.