The mind, in a medium of events, should be like a clear mountain stream flowing swiftly over jagged rocks. If it’s not then you should call the plumber.

That person that you engage in conversation who is prepared to be genuinely friendly may, in his eagerness to be friendly, sometimes forget that one of the best (or most subtle) ways for you of gaining information from him is to comment on what he tells you; until, eventually, he finds that he has told you everything you wanted to know and needed to know without asking him one single direct question.

Holding a casual conversation is like riding a bicycle on a blustery day: somebody with excellent balance has always got to be on top of the situation.

You can always try telling someone who asks you how you feel how you really feel; but isn’t that really just being unnecessarily impolite to someone being polite enough not to care too much about you anyway?

Sometimes, you’ve just got to get up and say: “I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, and I can’t possibly be beat.” But I wouldn’t wait too long to do it if I were you.

To be expelled from a group for “nonconformity” is a neat way of getting rid of you, one explainable to you best by acknowledging in yourself your own dislike of the outsider’s strange viewpoint.

To be told to “go away,” somehow or other, you must really have been informed of your rightful place in the world already.

You must learn early on in life to “do as you’re told”, as doing so is an in-built response mechanism that quite possibly saves the human race from itself.

What you don’t particularly feel in yourself much, you can only gawk at in amazement when seen expressed in others.

Just think what it would be like waking up twenty years later, thinking about what you should have done twenty years before…or maybe you already have?

It’s a strange “rule of thumb” of personal behaviour to follow but the truth is that, “If it hurts you should stop doing it.” Although, sometimes, some seem to learn this simple fact way too late, long after it has all been: “been and done.”

To be aware of what you are doing in the next moment (and so also be able to control it through the use of reason) should be the only thing worth doing.

Sometimes, you can confuse the casually malicious comment with boredom and with misunderstanding; but maybe in truth (for some strange reason), there was just not much else worth saying…

When you’re looking everywhere for the truth, anything that even remotely substantiates it will be considered acceptable supporting evidence.

The pursuit of excellence is excellent in itself if it also takes you to some place where you want to go which is worthwhile. But where else would you want to be exactly, for the amount of effort involved?

The “lazy person” is an anomaly within society: he has ceased to present a valid purpose for his continued existence there.

A new choice should not be something that gives you less freedom to act, but that is frequently not an option.

Being “given another chance” suggests you must have been foolish enough to muck up the first one…

In your desiring to wish to “be ashamed for some other person’s actions”, shouldn’t he really rather be ashamed for himself? And thus, if you are doing so, aren’t you just imposing upon his volition for your own reasons? Is that reasonable?

For people not to understand why you act in a certain way around them is also a reason to be cautious.