One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

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.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

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

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

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

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

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

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.