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.

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.

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

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.

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.

The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence. That's what the schools should be doing.