If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? – John Lancaster Spalding
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. – Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955
I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope. – Jerry Lewis