What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

My life is my argument.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

When you’re a pop star, it’s a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

I was becoming post-ideological.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‚How many wigs do you have?‘ And I say, ‚Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.‘

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.