We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

With God, the word ‘impossible’ is itself impossible.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

Most angelic communications are felt or heard rather than seen.

I find that the more I do the more ability the Almighty gives me.

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

It is not about being thin. It is about staying healthy and fit. I need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do. I want to be walking around at 90.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.