We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."

There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same.

“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your heart from the darkness of hate.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

The silence of the good people is more dangerous than the brutaliy of the bad people.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will.

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.

As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.