Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

Why is it, " he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you, " she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

Start loving now, and you start Heaven now.

Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.

I'm probably one of my three biggest fans on the planet.

We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.

We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.