We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

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.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

The future will be better tomorrow.

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

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

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.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

All of our problems start in our minds.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

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