Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.

She checked herself in the mirror. She was a roadmap of violence.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Fate is a lazy man’s excuse for avoiding curiosity.

The reality is you have to do your work and maybe you don't know everything. Maybe I don't know what the hell I'm doing! But most of the time you can't even admit that, though.

The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

He don't know what it is to lose, so I gotta teach him something that he doesn't know yet.

Elvis was always over the top. That's why he had that gold lamé suit! He designed his jumpsuits himself. He always said, "If you're going to be a star, you should look like one."