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

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

I feel Anglo-American.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

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

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

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.

If you’re performing music that is not who you are or where you’re at, it is painful. It’s painful for the performer and for the audience.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

I’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

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

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

I never make conscious decisions.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Yeah, I’m an open book.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.