I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

I guess if I’m a product, either you’re chocolate, you’re vanilla or you’re butterscotch. You can’t be all three.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

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

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

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

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

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

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

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

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

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

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

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

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

Don’t be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

A fool is wise in his eyes.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

I’m half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That’s why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I’ve seen so many.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

I like school and I like learning.

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

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

I am what I am. A fighter.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I hate being called an ‚icon.‘ I just don’t like it. That’s all there is to it.