I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

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

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

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

I’m not a nerd, obviously. Do I look like one? I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

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.

As for our majority… one is enough.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

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.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

Value is what you get.

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.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

I don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

On all the peaks lies peace.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

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

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

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

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

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.