Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.

The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.

Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.

Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.

The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.

Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.

I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors.

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.

Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?

Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.