It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Unless you believe you will not understand.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Affirmation is an internal positive statement that supports an external outcome.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

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

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

I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

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

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.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.

The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.

Work is love made visible.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.