If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Everybody likes a compliment.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

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.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

It’s a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That’s what you should learn self-defense for.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don’t know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump ‚UNICEF.‘

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

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

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.

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.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

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

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

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

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

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.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

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.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

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.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.