Humility

“أظرف الناس في رأيي من لا يتدخل فيما لا يعنيه.”

“We are also humans and not God/Allah. We accept that we have committed mistakes and we might keep on committing mistakes.”

“My ambition was not to be a great artist, but I have always wanted to be a man like any other man.”

“I am only a link in the chain of world culture; and if that is not so, then all my work is rubbish.”

“I try not to be a jerk. I really do.”

“Bu çocuğu dinledikten sonra ben artık bu sazı elime alamam!..”

“If “humility” means nothing more than the capacity to learn from criticism, then it has an undoubted value.”

“A movie star gets a script and he says, how can I change this script to suit me. A movie actor gets a script and says, how can I change me to suit this script?”

“I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity.”

“Cum pot eu, băiat de țăran, de la Băicoi, să stau într-o casă cu lei la ușă și atâta somptuozitate? Sunt bogat doar prin prisma generației și ar fi rușinos să afișez atâta opulență.”

“I hope to be remembered as a “voice” (like John the Baptist, crying in the wilderness) encouraging people to think, rather than as a personality whose felt status and charisma stopped them thinking.”

“What an honour for me that you should call upon me.”

“What we need is humility. Clever as we are, nature is far more creative.”

“The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator’s place and laugh at his own misfortunes.”

“Winning isn't everything. There should be no conceit in victory and no despair in defeat.”

“Tell no lies. Claim no easy victories.”

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

“I will become a president who is at eye level with the people.”