It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.

Everyone is a loser. Winners are just losers with more patience.

The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.

One of the eternal verities of human life is that if you make the same choices as other people, they will think you are intelligent.

The fiercely competitive are fierce because they don’t see themselves as competitive.

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you’re up to.

It is natural to feel helpless when attempting the impossible.

“ --- she says it’s a tradition --- which must mean all those things people do that they don’t know why they do ‘em.”
from the novella Christopher O’Connor’s Romances

Anachron’s Law:
There is no myth which is so irrational that no one will believe it.

Anachron’s Corollary:
There is no truth which is so obvious that everyone will accept it.