Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

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

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.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

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

The longer I live, the more deeply l learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him!