It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

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

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

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

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

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

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

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

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

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

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.