Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.
If you relate the truth with anger or passion you won’t convince anyone no matter how obvious to you the truth you’re relating is. Relate the truth with kindness and the stupidest person in the world will understand you.
If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
Do not commit to any side or cause but yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others -- playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness.
One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.