I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I am what I am. A fighter.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

I can be a cruel person.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

I get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

Faith never makes a confession.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.