If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

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

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

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

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

As much as I’m a black person from America, I’m a black person from Africa, too.

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

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

We are all alike, on the inside.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‚human stratum‘ may not be homogeneous.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.