Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.

Love is only one of many passions.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

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

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

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.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Fear is exciting for me.

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

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

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

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

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

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren’t there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.