Me Quotes

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

You can't process me with a normal brain.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life.

I want to look good when people see me.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.