Some people would deem their parents or children ugly if they were not theirs.

Our jobs determine what we deem more important: a painter is likely to claim that he or she would rather be deaf than be blind, whereas a singer is likely to claim the opposite.

We tend to overlook only those vices that we also have.

The number of things we do not like about someone skyrockets as soon as we find out that they do not like us.

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

It is only other people’s ridiculous beliefs or customs that seem ridiculous to us.

Our nearness to our problems makes them seem way bigger than they are, while our farness from other people’s problems makes them seem way smaller than they are.

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.

Whether we regard someone’s opinion as a fact or as an opinion depends on whether they are criticizing or complimenting us.