I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice and is never the result of selfishness.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good but for neglecting his neighbor's.

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.

It may be a cold clammy thing to say but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first when you learn to live for others they will live for you.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know because there is no hope of a cure.