“Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.”

“Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.”

“America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.”

“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”

“We do not have to make self- sacrifice a necessary element of altruism. We can regard people as altruists because of the kind of interests they have rather than because they are sacrificing their interests.”

“The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.”

“I often had occasion to remind myself in years to come that self-interest isn't a principle- it's just self-interest.”

“With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.”

“Ah, self-interest at last. Despite all of our differences, of race and time and distance, we achieve commonality. I understand self-interest.”

“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.”