The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No matter what happens, continue to push back the boundaries of your inner life. The confidence to prevail over any problem, the strength to overcome adversity and unbounded hope — all reside within you.

Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.