The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

We are not at war against Islam.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

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

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

On all the peaks lies peace.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

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

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

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

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

No violent extreme endures.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.