Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.