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

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

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

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

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

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

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

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

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

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

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

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

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

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

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.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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 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.

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

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

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

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

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

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

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

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.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Example is leadership.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.