“Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.”

“Girls my age never use the word “fair”. Ordinary girls as young as I am are basically indifferent to whether things are fair or not. The central question for them is not whether something is fair but whether or not it’s beautiful or will make them happy. “Fair” is a man’s word, finally, but I can’t help feeling that it is also exactly the right word for me now.”

“To think about fairness, think of economic life as a game - a serious game. All ideas about fairness can be divided into two broad groups. They are:- It isn't fair if the result isn't fair.- It isn't fair if the rules aren't fair.”

“You are fairly smart," I said after a while."You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.”

“People fail each other all the time, Mo, and they forgive each other, and start again. It's a question of knowing the other person's limitations. Knowing what's fair to expect of them. Knowing what's fair for them to expect of you.”

“We can treat our children fairly, for example, but if our hearts are warring toward them while we're doing it, they won't think they're being treated fairly at all. In fact, they'll respond to us as if they weren't being treated fairly.”