I'd rather teach peace.

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.

The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where learning nonviolence means that we dedicate our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment that the force of love, the force of truth, the force of justice, and the force of organized resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane and the force of fists, guns, armies, and bombs insane.

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

Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.

I'd rather teach peace.