“When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.”
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“I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.”
“Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.”
“I believe it is peace in our time.”
“Peace is a natural effect of trade.”
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
“Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.”
“The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.”
“I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.”
“A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.”
“I really am a woman at peace.”
“May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.”
“The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.”
“When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.”
“If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.”
“Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.”
“The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.”
“Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.”
“The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.”
“The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.”
“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.”
“Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.”
“I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?”
“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”