If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

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.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.