We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

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.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

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

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

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.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

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.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

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.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

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

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

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.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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.

I love the sea.