Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‚Happy Feet‘ to ‚Little Face.‘

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They’re cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

Proud 2 Pay – that’s something that distinguishes me, that’s something that defines me, and we’re going to keep that going.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

My affection for Taiwan… is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

We are what we believe we are.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

I don’t see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear ‚pop,‘ you’re like, ‚Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,‘ and I feel like, ‚Uh-uh. That’s not me.‘

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.