Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

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

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.