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

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

Who cares what insecure people think who are insanely jealous that you are OK with yourself?

Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.

Don’t be bothered with what you think other people expect of you when it comes to your raw talent.

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.