Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

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.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

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

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

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

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

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.