Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.

It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.

We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?

We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

Most firefights go by so fast that acts of bravery or cowardice are more or less spontaneous. Soldiers might live the rest of their lives regretting a decision that they don’t even remember making

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

Not only England but every Englishman is an island.

If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

People are more what they hide than what they show.

Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.

Disappeare with the thunder....... Sasuke said

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.