Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than others their opinions more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

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

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

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.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

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.

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

I rebel; therefore I exist.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

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

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.

No human creature can give orders to love.

Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

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

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

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.

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.

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

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

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

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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.

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

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.