Know or listen to those who know.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Only the educated are free.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.