You can't squeeze blood from a rock.

My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

No man should be angry with what is true.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

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

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

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 there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

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

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.

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.

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

Racism must be opposed by all means that humanity has at its disposal.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.