Desmond Tutu Quotes

I'm totally normal. I think it's obnoxious when people demand limos or bodyguards. I eat at McDonald's or Taco Bell. My parents always taught us to be humble. We're not spoiled.

He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport. I'm so, so thrilled that he is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.

I'm not extravagant. I share my house in London with five roommates. I take the Tube. I intend to stay the exact same person I always was.

I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.

I'm a guy with simple tastes.

I relate more to 90 percent of America because I look like 'em, act like 'em. I'm not above anybody; I put my pants on the same way. Some guys try to live up to their persona. I'm just me.

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.

I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it.

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.

I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.