I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

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

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

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’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

When in doubt tell the truth.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon‘ die without it.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

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

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

My life is real.

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

Tell the children the truth.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.