The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?

The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.