Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.
My enemy said to me, "Love your enemy." And I obeyed him and loved myself.
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
Withdraw into yourself as much as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve.