If you can work towards understanding something through knowledge, then you won’t have to run away from it in complete ignorance.

Do it all with a smile and a wink and you’ll always be harder to pin down to all those who expect no less than that from you.

Even continued negativity can be strength while catering for the opinions of those who do not expect it, even from you.

One should never base one’s own life upon another man’s vision—he can’t see any further than his own nose.

Only a fool waits for permission to live his life the way he wants to, for he’ll never get it.

Don’t ever get stuck emotionally in what sexual moralists like to call the, “So what?” diathesis.

Never forget to nod at the nodding-noddies, as (in mutual recognition) they subsequently like to nod back.

To become “so tired of it all” is another effective way of avoiding the sort of matter that aggravates you, right here and now.

Dirty tricks are “dirty tricks,” but sly jokes always come along with “a nice touch.”

Laziness is not doing what you want to do for your own sake it is doing what you don’t want to do for nobody’s sake.

Unfortunately, we cannot be wise all the time, as that would simply continue to be foolish.

It is no shame, being an autodidactic; at heart, almost everybody is to some degree or another, although he usually doesn’t like to admit it.

Knowing too much can be just as much a fault as knowing too little, if the consequences are essentially the same.

Showing magnanimity to those conquered by life must always be a matter of good manners, and not quite necessity.

Conceit blinds us; we are bound to fail to see where it would lead us in the end.

You know who you are as well as any other person does, when you find out how it really is quick enough.

Since what is important to you is important enough for that at least, then don’t bother to “give it up” for something else.

Problems never change; only your views on them alter.