Me Quotes

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

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

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.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.