Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

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.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

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

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

You can’t trust very many people.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.