The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.
Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.
I've got two artificial knees, I have an artificial shoulder, and I'm reasonably healthy given the damage I've done to myself. Everything hurts.
He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it
Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.
No person or thing hurting you is worth you hurting yourself
I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.
I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies - as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.
Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own
