Well, people like to hear the best about themselves. Telling them what they want to hear gets you a long way.

[It gets one a long way, indeed. But his emphasis on "you" is deliberate: a question whether this man is as moral as he claims. Everybody lies, be it by omission or outright fabrication. He murmurs and returns his gaze to the earth.]

I can only wonder what you see in someone like me.