Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

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.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

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

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.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

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

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

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.

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

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

War settles nothing.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

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

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

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.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

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.

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

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

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

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

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

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.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

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

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

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.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.