I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
Do not kick people when they are down because you will surely fall right beside them.
It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.
What if there were no hypothetical situations?
The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.
You have to realize what you don't know before you can learn about it.
Don't waste time thinking about what could have been when you could be thinking about what could be.
As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.
I hope to always be myself, except more mature and knowing more.
The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.
With your goal you make the one.