" I keep pretending to be all of those images, and from years and years of practice, I become a great actor. If I have a broken heart, I tell myself, “It doesn’t hurt. I don’t care.” I am lying. I am pretending. I could almost win an Academy Award for my performance. What a character, what a drama! And I could say that the drama of my life begins when I agree that I am not good enough — when I hear my teachers, my family, the television tell me, “Miguel, you have to be this way,” but I am not. "
― Miguel Ruiz , The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace