Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

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.

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.

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

I'd rather teach peace.

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

You cannot heal what you will not unveil.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

It's more important to be happy than well-dressed.

That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

No man should have another man's voice in his head.

We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved.

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.