One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

What you are comes to you.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Mine is better than ours.

For me, education was power.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

I love food.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Love can do much, but duty more.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

My mother did not like children.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I’m perpetually lonely.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

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

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

He who angers you conquers you.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

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

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.