“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.”

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

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.

But without painful experiences, we dont grow

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.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.