Charlotte Bronte Quotes

He spoke like a professor and forgot that he had since become Pope.

The most harmful thing in Christianity … is the leadership of one man in the Church—for instance, the pope, and his supposed infallibility. It is precisely in the dogma of his infallibility that the greatest mistake is contained, for the pope is a sinful man

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

I'm so not perfect.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

I never want to become arrogant and think I've made a flawless movie.

I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

I cannot help expressing a wish that every member ... doubt a little of his own infallibility ... and put his name on this instrument.

I'm not a perfect player.

No, I'm not perfect in any way.

You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them. But it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't admire Susan's own fiction.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

I will never reach perfection.

When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.

Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

You can't take yourself too seriously. Like, yeah, I'm doin' all that, but still I don't feel like I've done anything, really. I feel blessed 'cause I'm doin' all these things, but I'm not satisfied. I still have that feeling like, "Who am I? Who am I to have an ego? Who am I to change up and act like some Hollywood character?" Technically, in the grand scheme of things, I haven't done anything.

I may be heaven-sent, but I'm not perfect.

His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off.

Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to man. The wise know too well their weaknesses to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

First of all, you are not really that supreme.