“Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.”

“Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.”

“Despite all claims to the contrary, we have not been called by God to be inspectors of others production or quality of 'fruit'.”

“People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.”

“If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.”

“The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.”