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?

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.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

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 have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

I never say I am a guru.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

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.

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

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

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

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

We are so very ‚umble.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

I come from Detroit where it’s rough and I’m not a smooth talker.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

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.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

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

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

It sure is hell to be president.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us – and to maintain. That’s because without humility, it’s not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

My life is a struggle.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Good luck has its storms.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

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

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

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.

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