Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

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.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Silence is a source of great strength.

I’m selfish.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

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.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

I don’t have all the answers.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.