Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I don’t think I get angry.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I’ve done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I’ve ever had come true – I am so proud of that I can’t even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.