It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart-intelligence and goodness-shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature.

The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.