“Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are”

“I think we must be careful about too easily accepting, or being too easily grateful for, sacrifices made by others, especially if we have made none ourselves.”

“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”

“There is some kind of juice in our brains that makes us only care about what's in front of us right this minute. Even if we know something different will happen later and we should think about that too. […] If I could teach you one thing, Preston, that's it. Think about what's coming at you later on.”

“Be who you want to be and not care about what others think.”

“Who cares what people say about me? I am right on the ball. And I don't think one should take oneself too seriously. Be like the laughing Buddha, I always say, smile through life! It will immediately look better!”

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”

“We should care about the interests of other people for the same reason we care about our own interests; for their needs and desires are comparable to our own.”

“Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.”

“I don't care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves.”