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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

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

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

One may be humble out of pride.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.