The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

It’s a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That’s what you should learn self-defense for.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

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

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state… when you go to war, it can’t be a half-step.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I was becoming post-ideological.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Debates, I hate.

Travel teaches toleration.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.