Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma. . . We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.
My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or less safely, try different ways of being, different approaches to life, and our friends, to whom we open ourselves and by whom we are willing to be influenced and directed, play a central role in what becomes of us.