Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.
Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.
Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?
The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.