World peace begins with inner peace.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

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.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.

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.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

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.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.