TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

Keep your treasure to yourself.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.

Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.