As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.

War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?