You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing.
John W. Gardner – American politician and philanthropist, 1965-1968 Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (1912-2002), from hos speech Personal Renewal”, delivered to “McKinsey & Company”, Phoenix, Arizona (November 10, 1990)