Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I don't think anyone really knows me.

Everything I write is about me.

I discovered myself!

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

My personality doesn't interest me.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

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

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.