You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath.

It's not enough to find a niche that shares a worldview. That niche has to be ready and able to influence a large group of their friends.

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

David Ben-Gurion was a mythic figure, the founding father of Israel and a modern-day prophet, but he was also a real man who stormed through history on human legs. It was my great privilege to know him and work with him for many years.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

Much harm may result from bad company and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse rather than what is better.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.