I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz Kafka

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
Quentin Tarantino

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
Quentin Tarantino

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
Michel de Montaigne

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Michel de Montaigne

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
Michel de Montaigne

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Michel de Montaigne

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
Michel de Montaigne

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Michel de Montaigne

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.
Mick Jagger

Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
Mike Krzyzewski

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
Satchel Paige

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Herbert Hoover