Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

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.

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

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

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.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

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

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

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.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

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.