Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

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

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

There is so much that people take for granted.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

We cannot learn men from books.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.