There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

What is true belongs to me!

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

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

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

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

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

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.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

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

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.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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

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

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

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

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.

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

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

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

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

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.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

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

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.