I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.