I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

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 believe time wounds all heels.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

I love being busy.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Single life is so overrated.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

My life is mine to remember.

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

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

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

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

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

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