I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

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

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

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

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

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

A woman has the age she deserves.

I love women with attitude.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they’re not reachable.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

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.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

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

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

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.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

I’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

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

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

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

I’m ugly.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‚I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.‘

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.