Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.