Upon reflection, if you can think back far enough, you may find that a person whom you thought of as just disinterested in you really hated your guts. While to find that out can be quite surprising, to say nothing of being highly amusing.

When somebody you may find staring at you for some reason or another also seems to have a look of intense distaste upon his or her face, surprisingly enough, it will simply apply to you and to you alone.

Close friends who hesitate to say what they mean outright leave you with the feeling that they mean something completely different, or maybe even worse.

A friendship without much commitment on either side is more of a disinterested acquaintance; but for friendship’s sake one should never say so.

Some people won’t even give you the time of day—who are they and what do they want?

Some will say that you rise to the level of your incompetence, but even then you have to put your back into it or else you’ll get nowhere.

It is an unwritten rule of life, that you’ll never see the precipice of waning life before you until it’s too late to do anything much about it.

If you’re not careful, every once in a while you’ll not notice that you’re down good—that’s because you have no code.

Wherever possible youth should be enjoyed, as that’s what it’s for, while if any youth in particular is not enjoying it then that youth should go somewhere else and enjoy it there.

Youth is usually free to the youth; the trap closes later on in life when someone who is older realizes that youth is not really free after all.

Before too long you may feel that, upon reflection, your existence is of relatively little interest to anybody else, and you’d be right too.

Most people will judge you more if you don’t judge others, as they see this as being an irresistible temptation to indulge their prejudices.

The only practical ethical system is one that you are unafraid to use on your environment. This, above all, requires considerable concentration.