I am rather inclined to silence.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

I’m very low-key. I don’t really blend in, so it’s difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it’s a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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.

I’m constantly thinking.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

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.

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

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

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

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

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!

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

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.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

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

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

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

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

We make war that we may live in peace.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.