“It was like being in love with the sun: brilliant and intoxicating to be near, but impossible to keep to oneself.”
“To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.”
“Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others.”
“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
“It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill”
“Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.”