I Quotations

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

I'm addicted to tattoos. I can't stop; I love them.

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.

Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.

I love life. I love life to death.

If I get into a car on a circuit, I drive as fast as I can; that's it!

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.

I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

I can count on one hand how many people I trust.

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.

The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.

I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

I must beware of the photo, get what I can of it and then go.

I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to say, 'I like you, I want to go out with you, you can ask me.' And still I would question it. Did she mean it?

I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots... But I know it can be demeaning to a group of people. Maybe it would be all right if they were truly honoring the people and are giving due respect to the people they are representing.

I want a place where I can have horses.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Being Mormon is a big part of who I am, and I try very hard to live the right way, but I don't know that I'm an example. I hate to say, 'Yes, look at me. I'm a good example of being Mormon.' I want to be the best person I can be, so in that aspect, maybe I'm a good example.

I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.

I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.

I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

You know I don't care about what I eat. I love food so much, I can't affect the way I eat.

I want to go out there and do the best work I can.

I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.

I have so much more to go through as a young lady. But oh my God. I feel like I can do anything.

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

I love food. I'm a big food person. I'm really passionate about eating good food all the time.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

I want to run until I can't run

One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

I want someone who is open-minded, dedicated to whatever she is doing and isn't afraid to say I love you. As for looks, she shouldn't have three heads. I want a regular human being.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

I can travel anywhere in the world and I can pretty much fit in.

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so its not a lie.

I know with me, you really have to, like, pound me over the head to say, 'I like you. I really like you' to get me to see it. I think if you're too passive, you just fall into that friend role. And that's hard to break out of.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

I believe that every person has uniqueness - something that nobody else has.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

I don't care how much money you have in the world. It's not about that. It's all about time.

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

I believe in doing what I am best at.

Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you.

When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at her and your actions are another way to communicate. Don't focus on dialogue, only focus on what you're expressing.

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.