The 21 precepts of The Way to Happiness may be likened to the edges of a road. "Violating them, one is like the motorist who plunges onto the verge — the result can be wreckage of the moment, the relationship, a life," writes the author. And while only the individual himself may decide where to draw the road map of his life, for his goals are wholly his own, if he knows how to stay on that road, it becomes a smooth and fast highway.