The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

War settles nothing.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

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.

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.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

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

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.

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.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

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.

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

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

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.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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.

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

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.

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

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

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

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

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

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.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

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.

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.

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

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

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

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

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

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

We are not at war against Islam.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

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

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

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.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.