“[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97”

“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”

“One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.”

“It's much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.”

“Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.”

“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”