To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
What labels me, negates me.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.
Say my name.
If you don't know who I am, then maybe your best course would be to tread lightly.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.
I hope the perception is that I'm an actor. I never intended to be a movie star.
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.
Hell is other people.
Existence precedes essence.
We are our choices.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
We've never considered our stuff either homage or spoof. Those are things other people call it, and it's always puzzled me that they do.
The things that we love tell us what we are.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art, for I am no painter. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.
I am a composer, and I was born a Kapellmeister. I must not and cannot bury my gift for composing.
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
True behavior change is identity change.
An organism's individuality, then, is determined not by the gene's selfish dictation but by a complex negotiation between genes and their environment.