Greatness inspires greatness. Creativity inspires creativity. When you align yourself with people who inspire you and help draw out the best in you, you find your best self.

When ideas hang out with influence, income will always emerge.

It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Wisdom ruleth in counsel -- so do riches.

Be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you. Be generous in helping the unfortunate and those in distress. But bind to you friends of your own kind. Friends who will encourage you. Stand with you. Live as you desire to live; who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment; and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.