Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

You don't have to do anything.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

To lose is not always failure.

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.