Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

Stop being so sure that you are always right, and others wrong. Don't trust your own opinion, when you find it contrary to that of older men, and especially to that of your own parents. Age gives experience, and therefore deserves respect.

The self-righteous never apologize.

Never allow a person to tell you NO who doesn't have the power to say YES.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.

Pride dies 20 minutes after death.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.