The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
My friends are my estate.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.