Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.'

'But should you wish yourself to be like him?'

'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am.

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

When you try to be more like someone else, the world gets less of what it needs... you.