Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see.

"When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality."

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy... In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.