I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

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

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

You can’t do something forever.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

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

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

Peace begins with a smile.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.