Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

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 was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

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

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

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

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, ‚Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?‘ And it’s like, yeah, honey, they do.

In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

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.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

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.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

No violent extreme endures.

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

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.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

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.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

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

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.