I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

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

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

How I love David Bowie.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

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.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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 anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

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

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

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

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that’s – those are humbling times, you know?

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