Gossip can estrange the closest friends.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Excerpted from John Maxwell’s “Talent is Never Enough”
The following steps will help you become a talent-plus person when it comes to responsibility:
1. Start wherever you are. If being responsible has not been one of your strengths, then start small.
2. Choose your friends wisely. If you have started your journey on the road to responsibility, make sure you have the right traveling companions.
3. Stop blaming others. If you want to be successful and maximize your talent as a talent-plus person, take responsibility for your own life.
4. Learn responsibility’s major lessons. There …

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote:
Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more;
He who loses faith, loses all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works …