If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

As much as I’m a black person from America, I’m a black person from Africa, too.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.