You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

How to win friends and influence people.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

How to win friends and influence people (title of book)

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.