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

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

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

I hate being called an ‚icon.‘ I just don’t like it. That’s all there is to it.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

Humble people ask for help.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I’m no genius.

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.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

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

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

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

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‚How many wigs do you have?‘ And I say, ‚Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.‘

No one but a fool is always right.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

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

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.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

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.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

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

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

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

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

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.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

I think I’ve committed the one really bad English crime, which is I’ve risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I’m claiming that I’m an artist of some kind.

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

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‚Happy Feet‘ to ‚Little Face.‘

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

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

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

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

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

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

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘