I found I was more confident when I stopped trying to be someone else’s definition of beautiful and started being my own.

People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be someone else.

There are more gifts in who you are than there are in who you think you want to be.

Be yourself. Unapologetically.

If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid - but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.

But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.