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

Half a truth is often a great lie.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

The wisest have the most authority.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.