I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

I am proof that the American dream still exists.

I am proportional, and I'm very lucky for that.

I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on selflessness that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.

I am protected, shaped and built by what is outside, what they made of me, but also by what is inside, what I made of myself.

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all.

I am proud and embarrassed by how incredibly self-confident I was in my late teens and early 20s. I know that there were other things going on, too, but I had an overwhelming belief in myself. Like I said, I'm embarrassed by it and proud of it.

I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.

I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That's a link worth keeping.

I am proud of Hillary Clinton because she has been and is a great history maker -- in everything she has done.

I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.

I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.

I am proud of all of the products in the Ed Hardy family.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.