Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

I give opinions, not advice.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

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

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

I’m nobody, who are you?

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I don’t think I get angry.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.