Sun Myung Moon Quotes

I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

I really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

The Nobel prize is unquestionably the most famous prize in the world, and very often, the prize is an object of prestige not only for a person but also for a research center, a country, or for a particular area of interest.

You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.