“Have more humility. Remember you don’t know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.”

Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.

Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment

Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.

Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won’t need to take notes.

We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.

Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.

The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness.

To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

Modest humility is beauty’s crown.