Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

I give the truths of to-morrow.""I prefer the mistakes of today.

Ah! Happy they whose hearts can breakAnd peace of pardon win!How else may man make straight his pathAnd cleanse his soul from sin?How else but through a broken heartMay the Lord Christ enter in?

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.

I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies-I felt like saying “Howdy cousin,” to everybody who walked by.

When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long.

The Good Lord hasn't done this well: He placed limits on everything, except on stupidity.

Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.

I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.