“But without painful experiences, we dont grow”

God doesn’t start wars. That’s the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God’s name. Somebody’s got to blow that myth out of the water.

We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don’t know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It’s our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.

It is much harder to kill your near neighbor than the thousands of unknown and hostile aliens at the other end of a nuclear missile. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles…

Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to — everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.

In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

I have a very hard time with this word ‘non-violence,’ because I don’t believe that I am non-violent. …

We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.

Fear’s contagious, but so is courage.

Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world’s children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.