You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality