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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

If a man is not made for the self-sacrificing love of others, he is the most miserable of men.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.