Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.

There is no sin except stupidity.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I know love is the answer.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Knowledge is power.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.