Engaged, as I am, in a great war, I fear it will be difficult for the world to understand how fully I appreciate the principles of peace.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

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.

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

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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.