A quarrelsome man has no good neighbors.

My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.