It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.
Sometimes it's good to fall down to see who will pick you up.
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.