Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

No man was ever great by imitation.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

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

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

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

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Be as you wish to seem.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

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