I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Don’t ever play yourself.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

I think that I’m perfect.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

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

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

I’m not going to say I’m cool, because I don’t really feel that. I just don’t care at all, and I guess that’s what people think is cool.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?