Quotes About Peace

During Shabbat, I am completely cut off, there is no one to talk to, and I do not compromise about it.

Being chaotic isn't cute.

We have to stop the cycle of violence affecting so many of our communities. We have to love each other.

I've got a letter from the Dalai Lama at home.

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

The European family may well be anything but perfect. But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom, and prosperity.

Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.

I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.

I will make the greatest efforts to seek a way for Taiwan and mainland China to interact that is mutually acceptable to both sides. I will not be provocative; there will not be any surprises.

I will make the greatest efforts to seek mutually acceptable interaction between Taiwan and mainland China.

Relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are like those of a family.

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

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

It's very important to take care of yourself. Everyone's lives are so busy. Take at least an hour a day to recharge and do whatever makes you better. For grown-ups, whether it's a spa, sitting in a park with a book, or coffee, take time for yourself.