identity
“What each one honors before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.”
“You change the world by being yourself.”
“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
“I am myself and my circumstance; and if I do not save it, I do not save myself.”
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.”
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd.”
“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
“You are like nobody since I love you.”
“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.”
“Become who you are!”
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”
“Call me Ishmael.”
“Everyone sees what you appear to be; few really know what you are.”
“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
“Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.”