People, in being what they are, will tend to try to push you in any direction other than the one you wish to go; once you realize this it is best to develop a keen sense of direction.

In his designs an ambitious fool is but another fool making mistakes, although a determined one.

To be bothered by anybody you only need to be there to be bothered, without knowing why not to go away.

Envy and jealousy most easily replaces interest and goodwill, and in doing so it may also become easier to move on.

Wanting to do something for one’s self is a greater force for change, than wanting to do anything for anybody else.

Every once in a while you may notice someone whose eyes look something like the black pits of hell. He was probably fooled into looking like that by his mates for a joke.

Life could be seen as a journey in which the journey is the destination, one in which it is always easy to get off before your time.

Any deviation by an individual from the norm in society will provoke immediate retribution from society; which is not to say the object of this reaction will immediately notice its effects.

Anyone isolated within society is an outcast from that society, whether he agrees with that analogy or not.

An insult should never go unchallenged, lest at some other time in another place the perpetrator just up and does it again for free.

Those who fail, fail alone; while those who strive to win, and win, will enjoy the fruits of a personal victory—lucky fellows.

Someone who judges nobody must be a complete fool, as only a complete fool would get away with it.

Personality can be likened to a twig, break that twig and it is forever broken. Certain courses of action over time will inevitably lead to that conclusion; hence, non-avoidance of that course of action is analogous to mental illness.

People never tell their real motives, even if they do realize what they are themselves; while if ever they say they do, they are probably lying.

People use friendliness for the pursuit of their own aims; in human relationships there can be nothing particularly wrong with this, provided it is realized from the start that people are just this way.

Nearly everybody’s favourite pastime is to talk about other people’s failings behind their backs to almost anybody who’ll listen, and they’ll be the last ones to know about it.

People fear those who cannot converse in a friendly, lucid manner with others, and fear losing their own ability to do so even more.

The natural solitariness of the depressed man is best communicated to others amidst the crowd by his apparently unique ability to be alone amongst the crowd.

A person should learn to cultivate a view of complete ruthlessness to the environment, if only to learn best how to survive in it.

Most people can make a convenient moral judgement on the toss of a coin, which is why most people can be described as tossers.