Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success I'd probably choose success.
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
I loved my 17 years with R.E.M. but I'm ready to reflect assess and move on...
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems seeing a painting listening to some music some opera which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
