There is no way to peace peace is the way.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion.

Words work like keys. When you use them appropriately, you can unlock any locked heart.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.

She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end.

Being brave requires taking deliberate action and doing something new that stretches you beyond your comfort zone.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness.

One of the most fascinating things about the world of fashion is that practically no one knows who inhabits it or why it exists. There are a few people who know how it works, but they won't tell.

Neither one of us could be sure we'd get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.