Me Quotes

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

God made me and broke the mold.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.