If you can't resolve your problems in peace, you can't solve war.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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

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

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.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

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.

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.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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.

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

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

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

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.

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.

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

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.