Ethical leadership isn't about being perfect - it's about being accountable.
The desire to be loved is perhaps the most deeply rooted of all our vanity.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.
If you really want to succeed, then first forget about success and do what you love.