The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.

....I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity—akin to torture.

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents.

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton.

A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.