In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Value is what you get.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

‚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.‘

I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‚You’re Gaga‘.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

I don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.