Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.

Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.

Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.

The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.

I'd rather teach peace.

Mind is greedy. When you sense the benefits with people who previously thought rubbish about you, the mind forgoes those thoughts and inclines toward those people only to gain optimal benefits.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong.

To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.

Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

If people aren't laughing at your dreams, your dreams aren't big enough !

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.