You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.