Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.