The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

The most important thing is not to achieve success, but to keep it so that it would be stable.

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.

G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

A smile and a laugh are the duct tape of life; they can fix anything.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

Crushes are wonderful-they make you feel like you're two years old, and you say the stupidest things.

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