The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

He dare not come in company, for here he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches or be sick; he thinks everyman observes him. – Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. – John Lancaster Spalding