“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.”

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

“Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.”

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

“I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable”

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”

“we must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear”