Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

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.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

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

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Time stays, we go.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

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.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

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

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

I’m constantly thinking.

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

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

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

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

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

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

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.