I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

No violent extreme endures.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

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.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

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

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

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

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

And as a writer, one of the things that I’ve always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

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

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

I am rather inclined to silence.

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, ‚I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.‘

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

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

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Social Security is based on a principle. It’s based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

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.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Going home helps the content.

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

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

Although I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

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 refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.