The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they're better than average.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

People serve the True Guru only when the fever of egotism has been eradicated. Nanak has met the Guru; all his sufferings have come to an end.

Toyota wound up with this paradox. They're selling a car meant for young people to older people. It's not where they wanted to be.

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty

All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.