Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.

Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together

Change happens at the level of the individual

I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

Dream a daybright with kindnessand a deep compassionate ray.

At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow.

Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.

When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.

I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?