La modestia se parece a las estrellas, que cuanto más buscan la oscuridad en el cielo, más brillan

La buena crianza consiste en ocultar cuán gran concepto tenemos de nosotros mismos, y en cuán poco preciamos a nuestro interlocutor.

Confesar sus defectos cuando son reprendidos, es modestia; descubrirlos a los amigos es ingenuidad y confianza; hacer alarde de ellos sin tiempo y sin ser preguntados, es orgullo

Donde hay verdadero valor encuéntrase también verdadera modestia

La modestia prohíbe a veces aquello que no prohíbe la ley

El hombre superior es modesto en el hablar, pero abundante en el obrar.

La modestia es una de las cualidades más estimables del hombre superior.

La modestia contribuye al progreso, y el engreimiento conduce al atraso.

La modestia es el complemento de la sabiduría.

¡Sé modesto! Es la clase de orgullo que molesta menos.

La modestia es al mérito lo que las sombras a la figura de un cuadro: le da vigor y relieve.

La modestia sola, es capaz de desarmar la envidia, que por lo común hace a los hombres tan injustos.

Nada sienta tan bien en la frente del vencedor como una corona de modestia.

El exceso de modestia es un exceso de orgullo.

La vanidad es el amor propio al descubierto: la modestia es el amor propio que se esconde

La modestia en las capacidades medias es siempre honesta, en los grandes ingenios hipocresía.

No hay nada más engañoso que la falsa modestia. Cuando no es despreocupación por las opiniones, es una manera indirecta de pavonearse

Las personas excepcionales no utilizan trucos como la falsa modestia. No salen a la caza de cumplidos, pero los aceptan donosamente.

Lo que mejor sienta a la juventud es: la modestia, el pudor, el amor, la templanza y la justicia. Tales son las virtudes que deben formar su carácter

La sinceridad no es una flor espontánea, al igual que la modestia.

El verdadero conocimiento de sí mismo haría generalmente muy modesto al individuo.

Dios es modesto, no se atreve a vanagloriarse de haber creado el mundo.

El mejor adorno de una mujer lo constituye el silencio y la modestia.

Sin un gran entusiasmo, sin la decisión de dirigir la mirada hacia abajo, sin la sed de conocer, sin la disposición a despojarse de toda presunción para ser alumno modesto, será imposible realizar ninguna investigación o hacerla bien.

Es más difícil que una persona rica sea modesta a que una persona modesta sea rica.

Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.

I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

Life is always full of challenges. I believe you're never happy unless you're consistently making challenges for yourself.

Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.

Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

Complaining not only ruins everybody elses day it ruins the complainers day too. The more we complain the more unhappy we get.

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.

Let's get one thing straight - there is a big difference between a quitter and someone who gives up. Unfortunately, I have the right to make this claim because I fit into the category of 'quitter.'

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

There are fit men everywhere, so I'm working my way through them, one at a time!

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes.

When actors get a bad name for diva behavior - I've never seen it. Because my experience with people who are really famous actors is that they work really hard.

Initially, the television was seen as the devil incarnate by people that worked in the content industry. Now over time it turned out that that was one of the best things that ever could have happened to a content creator. I think the Internet is no different.

I really wasn't into comic books growing up.

Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

It's difficult because usually when they cast things, the main characters are Caucasian in absolutely almost every situation.