I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

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

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

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

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

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

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

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.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.