Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.