“It is a vulgar error to suppose that love can be gratified by vanity and selfishness.”— Margaret Fuller
“If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, and what people think of you.”— Charles Kingsley
“When we are afraid of ourselves and afraid of the seeming threat the world presents, we become extremely selfish.”— Chögyam Trungpa
“That's a true sociopath. I don't believe I am, I believe it was a completely selfish act.”— Mark David Chapman
“It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.”— Robert Greene
“People who are always taking care of themselves are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.”— Shirley Hazzard
“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.”— Pope John Paul II
“That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,— Creation's blot, creation's blank.”— Samuel Rogers
“I killed him because he was very, very, very famous and that's the only reason and I was very, very, very, very much seeking self-glory.”— Mark David Chapman
“Most of us are far more concerned with our own conveniences than we are with the needs of others.”— Mike Huckabee