Quotes about Identity

What happens if you walk into a church and try to find out what a man looks like?

There is something in us that refuses to be regarded as less than human. We are created for freedom.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own

On the other hand, because fortune is needed as an addition, some hold good fortune to be identical with Happiness: which it is not, for even this in excess is a hindrance, and perhaps then has no right to be called good fortune since it is good only in so far as it contributes to Happiness.

Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate. The rest of us must live forever with everything we have ever been.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

A nation that forgets its past has no future

I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.

You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That's what you did. That's not who you are.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...