When you try to understand something, also understand there that the capacity to understand it is hidden away, especially from those who cannot try to understand it.

What you intend about something is never enough to affect it; only what you do about it is tangible and real.

Become as callus to strangers as they are as callus to you. That is not to say you need to be nasty about it, just aware of the status quo, as, in this instance, being nasty is counter-productive.

Surprisingly enough, some people who you’d think care about what you think, couldn’t care less, and couldn’t even care enough to tell you so either.

Malicious intent can be subtle when it’s applied to you amid the crowd; to someone interested in opposing you it means: “I’ve set my cap at you!”

It’s a dirty, vicious little existence out there, if you’re a dirty, vicious little bleeder yourself.

If you do attempt to piss down somebody’s neck with impunity, it is advisable to be able to do so from a position of higher authority.

If one day you should see someone just looking delicate in the street, don’t touch him, as he’s close to the edge. But probably no closer than you or I would be on that day, if we’re as unfortunate as he is next.

The really nice thing about thugs is that they’ll always stick together right up to the point where they’re outmatched; then it’s each one for himself and whoever runs fastest isn’t “it!”

Through action to the point the will is sharpened, so that it can better understand the focus of the will of the world about it.

Always pay lip service to the doctrine of mutual aggrandisement, lest we forget the consequences of not back-scratching.

The moment of the con strings you along; but even if you know that you could still go along with it to see where it takes you.

If you really want to live you must act in a manner that reflects the fact that one day it will all be over.

People generally don’t much like to see a successful man succeed too much too often. In an egalitarian society they call it promoting inequality, anywhere else it’s called envy.

In matters of real importance you’ll never find someone of intelligence telling you what he’s really thinking too quickly, as it’s much too important for that sort of trivial response to the realities of the situation before him for him to do that too easily.

That which can be remembered with difficulty, given time, has no more enduring state than that which is forgotten, at last.