“Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.”

“Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does. What people think and believe and plan are all very important, but what they do is the thing that counts most. It is a call to throw out selfishness and to think of the common good of all.”

“Trying is never a waste of energy, giving up is always energy wasted!”

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.”

“Laura felt we needed to redefine what it means to be selfish, and quoted Oscar Wilde: 'Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

“Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.”