Peter Ustinov is one of the great actors of our day. I don't know much about him, but I was impressed by an interview of some years ago during the filming of the movie, "Death on the Nile". He was talking about the images actors have to live with. An image is an awful thing, he said. An actor says, "I'm going to do this or that." And someone will say, "What about your image?" Ustinov said, "I don't know what my image is, I don't want to know." And then he continued, "It is a sad state when the man looking at you from a mirror is more important than the man looking into the mirror."

If you are overly concerned about your image -- if you are preoccupied with the impression you are making on other people -- the chances are you are not certain of your identity. You don't quite know who you ar…