The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

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 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.

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

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

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.

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

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

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

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.