Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

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

There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

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.

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.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

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

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.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

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

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.