Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.