I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Any top-level athlete, it’s always the same. There’s always that hint of arrogance there… It’s hard to be humble when you’re the best.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

I don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I do have a vulnerable side. I think a lot of people have a misperception of me. They only see the tough, defensive, aggressive side. But every woman is vulnerable.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

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.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I don’t have all the answers.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘