Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.