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...

Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.

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.