One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

When one places one's self in the center of one's ideology, one will see the world and all people according to one's own wants and aspirations.