Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

A lie cannot live.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

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.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

I’m not perfect.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

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.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

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

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

He who knows himself is enlightened.