We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.” I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Love people, not things; use things, not people.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the most terrible poverty.
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.
As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.