India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

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.

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

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we’re spending in Pakistan, we’re spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

On all the peaks lies peace.

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.

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.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

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

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

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

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

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.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

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

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

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

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

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

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Oh my God – this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

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

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

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

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

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.