Fierce Invalid How-tos

I just finished listening to the book on tape of Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins. This is what I learned:
1. Ignore all advertising. Advertising is designed to induce you to do that which you would not otherwise do and, therefore cannot be in your best interest.
2. Be suspicious of conservatives—and liberals. People with political agendas have only their own power--actual, vicarious, or imagined--in mind.
3. Ride nowhere you could walk. This may or may not be from Robbins. It just seems like it takes money out of the pockets of our power-mad oil barons and improves our health by the exercise and the more leisurely pace.
4. Be jealous of your freedom. There are Republicans, Islamists, Baptists, Catholics, economists, and secular humanists with plans to impinge, reduce, limit or end it.
5. “Keep moving; otherwise you’re a target.” -Robbins
6. If you’re going to be cheerful, be a cynic. If you’re going to be cynical, be cheerful. This not only makes you more attractive and intriguing in the eyes of others, it is the simplest formula for self-improvement. Think your way to a new way of acting; act your way to a new way of thinking?
7. And, in the immortal words of Sailor Boy, the parrot: "People of zee wurl, relax."