Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

No one should have to go to school with a bulletproof backpack or be afraid to go to synagogue or church or a restaurant.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Before you speak of peace, you must first have it in your heart. —St. Francis of Assisi13

It is not God who is violent. We are. It is not that God demands suffering of humans. We do. God does not need or want suffering—neither in Jesus nor in us.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.