Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.
“I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.”
“I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.”