“You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”

“If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.”

“Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?”

“The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.”

“Because you are the one. You are better than me in some things, and I am better than you in others...I don’t mind being a bit like you. I hope you don’t mind being a bit like me.”

“You are an old pig!'one of them said to the other. 'And that is worse than being a young one.”