The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

To be pained by someone’s death is to make their death about you.

Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.

Shyness is a symptom of and a punishment for thinking too little of and too much about yourself.

Most people would rather eat inside a windowless room in which they have just defecated than eat inside one in which someone else has just farted, even if the room does not have a toilet.

It is extremely difficult not to fake or overdo something on which you have just been complimented.

Thanks to their egos, instead of simply saying that they do not know, some people sometimes try very hard to remember something they know they have never known.

Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.

When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.