I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

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

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

We are not at war against Islam.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

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

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

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?

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

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.

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.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

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.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

This is not a bad life.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.