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

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…

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.

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.

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the world.

Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn’t hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.

I’m pretty satisfied with how ‘Postcard’ turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented.

I just don’t think that everybody is disciplined. I think that’s a rare commodity.

It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.