There’s only so much time to use personal commitment with, after that even individual human potential becomes something else.

What we all want to know is: “How to manipulate the manipulative without their knowing that they are being manipulated?”

Being aware of one’s surroundings is being aware of oneself within them.

Life requires some effort to be lived well, or else it’s all “waiting for something more interesting to happen.”

After all the time that passes, still, there you are: still being (amazingly enough) something that you once were.

To be tricked into betraying something vital to you, you don’t really need to be paying too much attention.

For you to choose to betray something of value, it’s no excuse your being an ignorant man. But then again, maybe it is.

You cannot possibly betray what you have not put your heart into in some way; but once you have done that then you at least “shouldn’t have done it.”

You find those who do things to you can always justify it to themselves; but as for justifying it to you, that is another, more curious matter, more to do with dominance than natural justice.

Praise people, if you like, to keep them at a distance, but always put “the boot” in personally.

To actually stand to be insulted is to be no less than you are because of it, only to be more so at the time.

The pervert in society always perverts that which is closest to him first, even if that happens to be you.

Any derogatory observation that can be put humorously is still a gross insult to its target, but quite funny none the less.

You can think what you like. However, your judgement is unavoidably warped by all those petty prejudices that have added up to make that judgement sound enough to be to your liking.

Emotions betray you when it makes you incapable of doing what is right for yourself, or then makes you incapable of your knowing the difference, due to emotion.