The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, I.

All we have to do is to get our egos out of the way, get our egotism out of the way.

When it is said to him 'Fear Allah' egotism takes him in his sin. Gehenna (Hell) shall be enough for him. How evil a cradling!

When it is said to him 'Fear Allah' egotism takes him in his sin. Gehenna (Hell) shall be enough for him. How evil a cradling!

Champions operate as teams cohesive, untroubled by the egotism of prima donnas, each player prepared to work for the others. Is patriotism really the key to this kind of spirit for national teams, as the German critics of their team believe?

For the first time in its history, the very continuance of the European project is at stake. And yet the behavior of the EU and its most important member states has been irresolute and dithering, owing to national egotism and a breathtaking absence of leadership.

Otherwise, Tocqueville would surely say of Americans today what he said of the French then. The main difference is that it has become all too easy to foresee to what pitch of stupid excesses their egotism may lead them and into what disgrace and wretchedness they would plunge themselves.

People have found that when they have implemented the Golden Rule as Confucius said, all day and every day, not just a question of doing your good deed for the day and then returning to a life of greed and egotism, but to do it all day and every day, you dethrone yourself from the center of your world, put another there, and you transcend yourself.