Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.
We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.
Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.