Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change.

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

Emotion without action is irrelevant.

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

WHEN SIN HINDERS YOUR WORSHIP.God will never delay His promise.You have delayed Him."..However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8b

You are the mark on my liquid heartwhere love begins with the beginning’s startYou are the desire of the ablaze fires the only truth from ten-thousand-liarsFrom the poem- A Letter to My Love

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it.

All happiness is in the mind.

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.

I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.

The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better.