Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

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

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

I’m tender on the inside.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

No one but a fool is always right.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I always wanted a family.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

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.

I’m not a bad person.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.