“I am what I am, and what I am is what I am. I have a will to be what I am, and what I will be is only what I am. If I have a will to be, I will to be no more than what I was. If I was what I am willed to be, yet they ever will be wondering what I am or what I ever was. I want to change the Wall, and make my will. ”
“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am”
“Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?”
“I am what I am, and what I am is a work in progress.”
“I am what I am, and that's all that I am.”
“I have a will to be what I am, and what I will be is only what I am”