The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

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.

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

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

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

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

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.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.