Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
Be respectful to your peers and yourself, of course. Don't be a jerk. But at the same time don't settle for anything less than yourself.
Confidence is not 'they will like me'. Confidence instead is 'I'll be fine if they don't'.
Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself
People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them
No matter what society is trying to drill in your head about how you should look, how you should act, and what you need to say, I think it's all crap. All of it. Be yourself and do you.
Be different; be unique; be yourself.
To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. On both perhaps.
A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.