Me Quotes

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.

What keeps me going is goals.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.