Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.