As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

Your father is the only God. You can also become god but you must follow a simple rule and let that rule be made up of love.

The graceful wings of a dove lead to the endless imagination in a dream wings of pain.

Nobody can make you happy or unhappy except you.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

Joy is the best makeup.

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.