There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.
Benjamin FranklinThe great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
Benjamin Franklin