Christina SteadThinkers

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Greed is bottomless in the rich — If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Imagination is an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

Old age is life's decision about us.

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

A Self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.