Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.

As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

I feel an author and an illustrator weave the magic of a children's picture book together.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.

Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.