“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!”

“For if you feel for me as i do for you - then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

“"Nasruddin, four years ago you were here, and I asked that time also what is your age, and you told me forty years. Now this is absolutely inconsistent – how can you still be forty?"
Nasruddin said, "I am a man of consistency. Once forty, I remain forty always. When I have answered once, I have answered forever! You cannot lead me astray. I am forty, and whenever you ask you will get the same answer."”

Nasreddin (1208–1284) philosopher, Sufi and wise man from Turkey, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

“If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.”

Peter Sellers (1925–1980) British film actor, comedian and singer

“I am not a theoretician of the cinema. If you ask me what directing is, the first answer that comes into my head is: I don't know.”

Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) Italian film director and screenwriter

“I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or chisel to remind you of your me-ness as I discover you in myself.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

“I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do…”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

“Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.””

Pontius Pilate (-12–38 BC) was the fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26–36

“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea