I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
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.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.