Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.

What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.

When young, you're shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you're surprised by the number of people who don't.