Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).
You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what you're saying, and they can't know what you're saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting unless you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature. . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things abut a person, you can touch him at the core of his being.
I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?
Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.
Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.