Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of "mud mummies" around you, get rid of the mud.