Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.