Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
I don't call up the press and say, 'Look at me!'
I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.
Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.
I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.
I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? The fact that I can continue to do what I've always done and kind of become the face of that brand is to me, kind of just makes sense. It doesn't make sense not to do it I guess.
Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.
I've always treated my career like independent. Everything that I got is because of myself, my own endorsements, my own touring myself.
Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.
If it wasn't good, I wouldn't be going back out on tour.
Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.
If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.
He in Washington who does not toot his own horn may find it untooted.
Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.
'Bombay Boys' is among my favourite movies and my favourite performance of myself.
A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.
I'm not sponsored by anybody but myself... I'm not sponsored by the PAP.
