"You cannot destroy violence with violence - you cannot destroy dark with dark - you cannot destroy hate with hate - only love can do that."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for your enemy to die."
"Between a stimulus and a response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. The last of human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
"People say that what were all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what were really seeking. I think what we are seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."
"I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others."