Don’t be complacent. #life

How many new friends did you make last year? What is your average number of new friends per year? #life

Education and marketing are two sides of the same coin. Propaganda is the edge. #life #failure

People hate when you ignore or shrug off their insults. #life #success

If your mind wanders, set it free. #life #success

Letting the cat out of the bag is the humane thing to do. #cat #life

Things you name applies a mental and perceptual filter to those things, obscuring the reality. #life #tao

Whenb one believes what one is told, thought has been subverted. #life #failure

If you think starting is hard, then you’ve never written anything. Stopping is much harder. #writing #life

Remember when people had bookshelves full of encyclopaedias, but never read them? #life #failure

“If you don’t stand up for what you believe, you really don’t believe.” #writing #life

Do you smile in a group photo because someone says, “Smile!”? Or are you the grumpy one? #life #character #writing

Back in my day, I used Compuserve, Delphi, and AOL. Now? I don’t use anything because it uses me. #life #failure #technology

What’s the silliest part of your life? Do you enjoy it or the silliness? #life

Humans align other humans to themselves. Rarely, do they align with others, unless they want something. #life #failure

How many friends are too many? How many enemies are too many? Which would you rather have? Would you rather have friends or people who are loyal to you? #life

Justification isn’t ability or permission. #life

Dread comes from the imagination. #life #writing

Absolutism and certainty are failure. #life

How many years do you have left? How many successes and failures will you experience in that time? Will you do something about it or just accept what comes? #life

“If you can’t change, bend, or adapt, you are old and brittle. Your strength lies in certainty. You will break and fail.” #life

If you can’t stand someone, that says more about you than the persons you can’t stand. #life #failure

With enough anger, action ensues. Too bad it’s usually the wrong action. #life #failure

Experience is great, but it sometimes blinds you to new experiences and better ways of solving problems. #life #success #failure

If you back down from your values, they aren’t things you value. #life