“Peace starts within.”

Some people say, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We’re not very good at it though, are we?

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?

Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.

I love dogs, not chimps. Some chimps are nice, and some are horrid. I don’t actually think of them as animals any more than I think of us as animals, although both of us are.

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

Very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.

And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.

You may not believe in evolution, and that’s all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.

Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.

I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle. If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that’s what will give you hope.

I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.

Trees are living beings. And they have their own personalities. There are the young, eager saplings, all striving with each other. If you put your cheek against one of those, you almost sense the sap rising and the energy.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.

Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

I’m not sure if you know this but your peace is not up for debate.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that’s when you start playing your best.

There is a certain peace in privacy.