No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Self-respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases – not all, but most – you also give back that person’s ability to think with at least some clarity.
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack.
