Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

The paradigm shift happens when we come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't revolve around us.

Lest anyone think that any action, however required or useful, could be a source of pride, Sibbes preached that "it is a sottish conceit to think that we can fit ourselves for grace, as if a child in the womb could forward its natural birth. If God hath made us men, let us not make ourselves gods."107

Never leave the impression that you're the hero or the smartest

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.