“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”

“Start to see the things people say and do to you as less about you and more of a perfect reflection of the tragic relationship that they have with themselves.”

“Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them”

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

“Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head”

“You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.”

“" You'll never be criticized by someone who is doing more than you. You'll always be criticized by someone doing less. " Remember that.”

“Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail…”

“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”

“You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.”