I don’t care what people think of me. I don’t even care what happens to me.
Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I’ll take with me the rest of my life.
Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved.
So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.
You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage’s sake doesn’t make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
You laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at you because you’re all the same.
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
I don’t set out to win awards. I don’t think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it’s an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
Success doesn’t motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming.
I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.
I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Don’t try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, ‘You loved me when you met me, so let’s keep going!’
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.
People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
I ain’t giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain’t got nothing else to say for you.
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
If you didn’t want to believe in me, that’s OK, because I’ll make a believer out of you.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
I married beneath me, all women do.
If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.
A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.
‘The bigtime for you is just around the corner.’ They told me that first in 1952 – boy, it’s been a long corner. If I don’t hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I’m gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.
Constantine ‘Costa’ Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.
When I receive an award it gives me more encouragement, hope and drive to go forward with my voice to sing better and better.
I don’t care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That’s what makes me feel good.
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.
There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young woman at a lecture I was giving – she came from Liberty University, which is a ludicrous religious institution. She said, ‘What if you are wrong?’ and I answered that rather briefly, and that’s gone viral.
I’m not ashamed to be me. More than anyone else I know, I love my life and accept myself. What’s wrong with being unique? I am proud of everything that I am and will become.
Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don’t give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’
You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he’s somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.
To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you’re naturally yourself, you’re beautiful.
Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image’s deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.
