Quotes about Identity

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

[The Civil War] created in this country what had never existed before—a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: you become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?

It isn't the whiskey they choose, it's the image.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.

Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.