If the world only gives you ten percent of warmth and ninety percent of pain, how will you respond? Do you still give back in the same proportion? From the world itself there is no warmth, whose every share in fact comes from every man.

If you have reached a relatively old age, you will find that however you have experienced many trials and tribulations, most of your peers will not be impressed, because at this age everyone will be the same, not novel, or even worthy of note. Only when you become a powerful person, and more powerful than any others, can you let them show in front of you their attitude that feeds your vanity.

It is more dreadful to have nothing to do than being able to do nothing well.

You can’t live without a goal, which once you have you should prepare both success and failure for it. This is called “preparation for two eventualities”, to make sure you reasonably start.

With seventy percent by and large comprehensible, and thirty percent not readily understood, there is a passage for most tacit understanding and some food for thought, and it is exactly a good passage. Otherwise it could be either artificial or superficial. Such is more determined by the reader's vision and experience, and any affinity with the author.

Without previous trouble of work, all of the relaxation will come to be boredom.

A social butterfly always feels at home, and people in the house all treat him one of the family; a social phobic is anxious to be treated like a guest, and most worried to be not one.

Life entails infiltration by art, or at least embellishment by art. With no singing voice, no written passages, no brush to paint, or nothing dependent on imagination to make a man intoxicated, the happy life is out of the question.