The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

I’m on the autism spectrum. I don’t usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Only the shallow know themselves.

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

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

My style has always been my own, just like my flow and style.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

A woman has the age she deserves.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

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.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

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

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.