“I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for what I and they contribute.”
“Titles are public. They are for others to notice. I expect others to address me according to my titles, but I do not address myself with them-- unless, of course, I address myself as an other.”
“After all, I reflected, I was like my neighbours; and then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active goodwill with the lazy cruelty of their neglect.”
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”
“When fear and suffering are disliked by me and others equally what is so special about me that I protect myself and not the other?”