If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.