An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

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

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

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

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

We make war that we may live in peace.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

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

Adults are obsolete children.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

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

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.

Africa will thrive.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

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.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.

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

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

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

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

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

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.