Laughing is good for you if you don't kill yourself.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

译文：结交朋友要始终如一，不要因为地位升降就中途分手。赏析：我们要结交知心朋友，不管我们的身份如何改变，对待朋友的态度都要矢志不渝。不能因为自己的名位高和钱财多就疏远朋友。

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

The writer must be a perpetual outsider, a critic of all orthodoxies.