I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.