Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

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.

A great man is always willing to be little.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

Travel teaches toleration.

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.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

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

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Be not a slave of words.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.