~ The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. ~
~ Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. ~
~ Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. ~
~ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~
~ The greatest productive force is human selfishness. ~
~ We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. ~
~ Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself. ~
~ Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. ~
~ He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. ~
~ Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. ~
~ If all the people in this world, in which we live, were as selfish as a few of the people in this world, in which we live, there would be no world in which to live. ~
~ Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. ~