If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.

Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom.

Time and suffering are inseperable. In life, as in physics, both are the common denominator of all experiences.

War pacifies itself.

Moments of love is life, a life is for moments of love.

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

I think all of us create our own miracles.

Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.