You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The soul is not well when we rush so much. If it does not get the rest it needs, it becomes fatigued.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
We must use time creatively.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
Never give up on what you really want to do
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.
There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.
To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.
There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.