Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep too grave to laugh and too selfish to seek other than itself.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

If I had children I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16 I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And more importantly I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

If you wish to travel far and fast travel light. Take off all your envies jealousies unforgiveness selfishness and fears.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world ' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology but we are behind in empathy.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Yes forget your weakness whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism it is selfishness after. all for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness and remember your strength.

On a selfish basis I really enjoy sports and activity.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

My main concern is theater and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish and it has to do better.

The truth is I think we are a self-less society not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness of virtue and sin among the members of a society.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice be kind share put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts and that's the right thing for society.

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through the least we can do is be happy and the only way to do that is by being selfish.