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"Our soul lives in Peace and lives for Peace. If we live a life of peace, we are ever enriched and never impoverished. Unhorizoned is our inner peace; like the boundless sky, it encompasses all."
"If peace is not In Nature's beauty, Then where is it, where?"
"A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity."
"What does peace do? Peace blossoms. What else? Peace spreads. What else? Peace illumines. What else? Peace fulfils."
"How can I have peace? Not by talking about peace, But by walking Along the road of peace."
"May peace-dreamers And peace-lovers Occupy the length and breadth Of the world."
"Not by talking, but by praying And becoming something good, Can we offer peace to the world."
"I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show."
"I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter."
"When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far."
"It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized."
"Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated."
"Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will."
"I don't believe there's more than one human man or woman in a thousand who can think internationally, and until the majority can I don't see any hope of lasting peace."
"War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through."
"What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared."
"Let love shine and we will find a way to come together."
"Without prayer there is no inward peace."
"It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend."
"Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself."
