Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

Networking is more about ‘farming’ than it is about ‘hunting’. It’s about cultivating relationships.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.