Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason to my liberty and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave an instrument of the will and interests of others.
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.
I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.