It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.

To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.