quotes about Self-importance

“Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.”

“I still recall the day when I became known not just as Gay Brewer, but 'Gay Brewer, winner of the 1967 Masters.' The reality of the title – the biggest thrill I've had in golf – is something that can never be taken away.”

“It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.”

“Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.”

Source : "The Prayer Of The Body". Interview by Sy Safransky, thesunmagazine.org. October 1992.

“I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.”

“That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.”

“I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.”

“My name is Wyatt Earp! It all ends now!”

“For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.”

“The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.”