No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

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.

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

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

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.

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.

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

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

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

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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.

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

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

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

This is the thing that I was born to do.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.