If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

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

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

I want people to draw strength from me.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Solitude is independence.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

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.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

The older you get, the better you get.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I’ve been invited to do ‚Dancing With the Stars‘ three times, but Lifetime said no.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

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

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.