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

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.

I'd rather teach peace.

As she’d walked along this street, a million stars stretched across an indigo canvas, holding all the freedom she’d yearned for every night.

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again"

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.