I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

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

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

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

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.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

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.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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

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.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

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

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

What we live by we die by.

I always entertain great hopes.

I never know what day it is. Never, ever, ever.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Free speech is not just another value. It’s the foundation of Western civilization.

I am rather inclined to silence.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.