Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.

I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.

It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.

Jesus said Communion first, community comes out of that, and out of community, ministry.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.

It was the perfect moment to tell her. This is my last year. But I couldn’t say it. Not yet. I wanted another minute, another hour, another night of pretending this wasn’t the end.

I'm always projecting onto objects like they're alive in some way.

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.