You’ll know you’ve been brainwashed when five years later you find yourself holding the same intolerant ideas, as the man who persuaded you into them in the first place.

Take too long to think too much and the moment to act well, as well, just passes swiftly away before your eyes anyway; and probably just as well, too.

Mental hospitals are full of the broken ones; the walking wounded live next door, or up the road a little bit, or even round the bend.

If you give someone something for nothing he comes to expect it, while if you give him nothing but good advice he’ll expect better next time.

You can find that those who just dislike you often can’t define why this is so, but this is simply to do with a certain attitude of people.

Play to the crowd long enough and you may eventually come to suspect that the audience “sucks!”

If you’re disliked you’ll either be attacked or ignored; in either case don’t let it interfere with your aim.

The right man in the right place at the right time can make a difference, but usually not much of one.

The impending lie is that egotistical vice practiced by the potential hypocrite in homage to the pursuit of virtue.

To grasp what you can, now, at the trough, is the main means of inducing most pleasure from what you can get, now, from society.

If you choose to burn your eye-balls out with an arc-light in the full light of day, do be sure you know what you’re doing while you’re about it.

The actions of others must be viewed in the light of their complete selfishness, or else you’ll never see what they get up to behind your back.

Knowing precisely how, roughly when, and where exactly to scratch someone else’s back for your mutual aggrandisement, best makes use of a useful social gesture.

At times there can be something wrong with your face: you can look like that poet who is forever looking into space.