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.

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.

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.

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

I'd rather teach peace.

Why don't you try something really different and be the same person two days in a row?

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to power, wealth, and status. Then watch what happens.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.