You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.

When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.

Self-esteem requires being better than someone else. Self-value requires being better than yourself.

Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will come true

I take my cues from the world around me and carefully paint a self-portrait that the world can’t help but accept. However, I would be much wiser to put down all such artistic notions and hold up the portrait of me painted by God simply because that is a picture at which the world can’t help but marvel.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.