Billy Joel Quotes

I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.

Maybe I had a 'secret identity,' but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as 'me.' The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.

Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.

I think everybody has a secret life.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

No one knows the three-dimensional story of who I am. Or anyone is.

There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately, what I'm most interested in as a writer is a few notches below the private self.

We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

I think I'm not always what I seem.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)

The search "Who am I"...ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand.

I know you even under the skin.

Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.

All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

I. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't.