The hardest thing of all, is just standing in front of a mirror and not recognizing the reflection.

I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn’t just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect,...

Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings—that what they saw and loved they had to have. They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those...

Boredom is for the selfish.

Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness.

We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a Creator whom we cannot know experientially except in so far as he reveals to us our personal relationship with him as...

Bet vai mēs visi neesam savtīgi? Domāja Strūga. Vai arī es nestrādāju tāpēc, ka mana personiskā ādere mani dzen? Vai es darbā vispirms nerodu personisku interesi un pēc tam tikai sabiedrisko? Darbā vispirms es atrodu...

I don’t want revenge, Mandalay, I want Dwayne to be stopped. If he’s not, somebody else will suffer like I am, like my parents and little brother are. And . . . “”And what?””I think...

If it’s the benefit to myself that drives my decisions, I can know that I’m driving down a long road with a short bridge.

When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

When you’re here, I’m there for you. And when you’re there, I’m here for you.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That’s what love is supposed to be like, right? But in fact, if you think about it, that’s...

Selfishness is blind.

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that...

How good is good enough,since you are only good for your selfishness.