The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

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

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.

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.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

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

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.

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

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

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

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.