Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?

Greed is the fast-track to poverty.

If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in.

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I’m really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening.

If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.