No matter what you say or do, somebody's always going to be there and will have their own opinion of you. There's nothing you can do about it. You just have to live your life.
It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.
I do what I do; I can't control who thinks what.
I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.
The risk element only came from acknowledging other people's attitudes toward it, and realizing that they considered it to be a risk for me to do.
Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in the books.
The expectation from other people kind of gets on me.
We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.
