For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.

Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?