Autobiography Quotes

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.

God is simple, everything else is complex

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

there is no truly honest autobiography.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

After my stroke I put down much of the luggage of my life. I didn't have to prove anything anymore - in business, in my personal life or whatever. And now, as I work on my autobiography, I enjoy looking back, seeing the connections, the causes and effects of my life.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.