| Quote | Who Am I? |
| 'I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.' | |
| 'I'm not funny. What I am is brave.' | |
| 'I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.' | |
| 'I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.' | |
| 'You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.' | |
| 'I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.' | |
| 'I'm an idealist without illusions.' | |
| 'I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.' | |
| 'I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.' | |
| 'I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.' | |
| 'I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.' | |
| 'Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.' | |
| 'I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.' | |
| 'With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.' | |
| 'I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.' | |
| 'As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.' | |
| 'I think, therefore I am.' | |
| 'I will not be triumphed over.' | |
| 'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.' | |
| 'To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.' | |
| 'I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.' | |
| 'I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.' | |
| 'I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.' | |
| 'I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.' | |
| 'Thank goodness I never went to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.' | |
| 'I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation that all wisdom and philosophy.' | |
| 'I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.' | |
| 'I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be one or the other.' | |