The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

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

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

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

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

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.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

No violent extreme endures.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

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.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.