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

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

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.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

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.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

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

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

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

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

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.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Solutions are not the answer.

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.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

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

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

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

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

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.

Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.

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

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

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

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

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

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.