““All these things exist everywhere; there’s no ‘universal constant’ that describes everything. “You see what you want to see. The truth is that the glass is both half-empty and half full. What you can control is how you choose to see it. If I give a beggar a quarter, you could say I was altruistic, because I helped him. But it’s just as true to say I was selfish, that I gave him that quarter to alleviate my own sense of guilt. Neither view has a monopoly on the truth of it. People never do anything for only one reason. “But””