Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

It is selfish to want others to be selfless.

The belief that someone loves us, or should or can love us, as much as we love ourselves is one of the most common signs of intellectual immaturity.

Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.

Parents want the best for their children … for themselves.

The question is not whether or not someone in your life is using you, but how are they using you.

Every relationship is, to each party, ultimately about them.

Our friends are friends with us not for us but for themselves.