Those who know how to think need no teachers.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Peace is its own reward.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

My life is my message.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

Social media is a huge struggle for my generation in general - it's a lot of pressure! Even having an Instagram is stressful. You have to make it look cool, posting it at the right time, and it's become its own job and not something where you connect with people.

You want to accomplish everything; there's no limits to what you want to do. You want to do movies. You want to do modeling. You want to be an entrepreneur - you want to enter every aspect of the entertainment business.

Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, 'I messed up,' than, 'I wish I did that.'

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.

The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are used to that and they don't want change, they don't like change. And I get that, that's cool. Luckily for me, I'm confident in myself as an artist where I can do what I want, and as long as I'm cool with it, I'm cool with it.