“A mere change of clothing will alter the personality they manifest in any particular moment.”

“Yet men are raised in conditions where, above all else, the opinions of others defines the quality of who they are.”

“Men lose their daily fortune and sleep only to awake to the spendthrift of tomorrow.”

“How he spends or saves the gold in his pocket will be, and is, a reflection of his capacity for generosity and his wisdom in the face of all varieties of circumstance.”

“The simplicity of throwing out the water, but leaving the baby alive and well, has never been more key to a man’s sanity than it is now.”

“No stone must be left unturned in this effort to reorientate whatever he labels unconsciously in his mind as the usual, the typical, the accustomed, and the old.”

“…for exactly this collapse may serve as the fodder for new rightful growth.”

“He forgets himself as he once was; before the mask, and before the glue.”

“Opportunities do not repeat in an endless fashion.”