We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

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

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

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

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

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