There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

You should never give up your inner self.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

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.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

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

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

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

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

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.

Some people would like me to be round again.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

I love imperfections.

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.

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

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

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.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

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.

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.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

Peace begins with a smile.

A woman has the age she deserves.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

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.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.