If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

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

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.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in the state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.