I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

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.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I kinda live where I find myself.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

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.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

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

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

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

Aim for the highest.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

I came up from a difficult background.

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.

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

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

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