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

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

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

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

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.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

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.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

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.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

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

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

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Humble people ask for help.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‚star‘ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

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.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.