One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment. (Jan. 2001)More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

See in what peace a Christian can die.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you: who dares to ration our relief? We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If this phrase of the balance of power is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I tell you one thing -- if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If the reviewing of books be... an ungentle craft, the making of them is, for the most part, a dishonest one -- and that department of literature which ought to be entrusted to those only who are distinguished for their moral qualities is, not infrequently, in the hands of authors totally devoid of good taste, good feeling, and generous sentiment. The writers of Lives have, in our time, assumed a license not enjoyed by their more scrupulous predecessors -- for they interweave the adventures of the living with the memoirs of the dead; and, pretending to portray the peculiarities which sometimes mark the man of genius, they invade the privacy and disturb the peace of his surviving associates.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

To get Peace you must work for Justice.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]