Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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

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

We are not at war against Islam.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

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

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

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

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

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.

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.

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.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

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

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it’s not an ‚us versus them,‘ it’s an ‚us and them‘ type scenario.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

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

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

We make war that we may live in peace.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

No one gives a damn what Iran thinks on any significant issue. The only reason Iran is at the big boys‘ table is because of their nuclear weapons program.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

I am rather inclined to silence.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.