I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino

I wish they would only take me as I am.
Vincent Van Gogh

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
Vincent Van Gogh

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
Richard Bach

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Johnny Depp

Am I a romantic? I've seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I'm a romantic.
Johnny Depp

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.
Johnny Depp

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
R. Lee Ermey

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
James A. Baldwin

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Marie Curie

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John Steinbeck

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
John Steinbeck

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
Orson Welles

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul Sartre