Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

We are not at war against Islam.

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

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

War settles nothing.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

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.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I’ve done for 25 years. I don’t need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.