“Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?
-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.”

Variant: You save yourself or you remain unsaved
Source: Lucky

1st Discussion with Young People, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (26 May 1971)
1970s

Speech to the annual actors' Equity meeting (1951)

He wrote in discussing with John Locke the passage of Daniel 7:9. The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, Vol. III, Letter 362. Cited in The Watchtower magazine, 1977, 4/15, article: Isaac Newton’s Search for God.

Reader's Digest.com interview http://www.rd.com/face-to-face-with-charlize-theron/article18057.html
Context: I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. … There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want. And that meant "Be responsible with this little motorcycle that we're going to give you, because you're only five. If you're not, you're going to hurt yourself" -- which I did. My mom wasn't like, "Poor baby." She was like, "You do wheelies. That's what's going to happen." My mom's philosophy was, "If you get yourself in trouble, you've got to get yourself out of trouble."

Better Place to Be
Song lyrics, Sniper and Other Love Songs (1972)

Shades of the World (1985)

Variant: If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek

(original Dutch: citaat van Jan Mankes, in het Nederlands:) Ik houd van Thijs Maris en zijn dingen bezitten voor mij een eigenaardige bekooring.. .U zult zelf zeker van Thijs Maris houden en dan weet u.. ..hoe heerlijk het is mee te leven in zijn [Thijs!] kinderlijke innigheid.

In his letter to artist and art-critic Augustine Obreen, 16/19 June 1915; as cited in Jan Mankes – in woord en beeld, ed. Sjoerd van Faassen; Museum Bèlvédère, Heerenveen, 2015 ISBN 1877-0983, n. 22, p. 26
1915 - 1920