I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.

Greed is the fast-track to poverty.

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

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.

Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.