I don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

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.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

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

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

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

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

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

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.

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.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

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

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

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

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

The chimpanzee study was – well, it’s still going on, and I think it’s taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we’re simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

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

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

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.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

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.‘

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants; I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B. My reputation grew because I was a professional. I did my job, and I was courteous – a no-nonsense guy.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

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

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

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.