In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

We boil at different degrees.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

I kinda live where I find myself.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

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.

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.

I think that I’m perfect.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

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

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.