Folks never understand the folks they hate.

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.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

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.

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

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.

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

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.