“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.”

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.

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.

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.

All dope can do for you is kill you… the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

I think that if you’re just a good person, you work hard, you say “yes,” and you are driven.

But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.

Life is hard for everyone. That’s why there’s such a nice reward at the end of it.

That was how Ren turned my boring life into an illusion, and that was too much for no matter how hard i tried, it seemed I could never catch him.

You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.