Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.

We believe in taking down the barriers, but we also believe in the most energetic reconciliation among peoples by getting them to know each other, talk each other's languages, understand each other's fears and beliefs, getting to know each other physically, philosophically and spiritually. It is much harder to kill your near neighbor than the thousands of unknown and hostile aliens at the other end of a nuclear missile. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles...

Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.