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

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

We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the water - if very young children don't begin learning about these things literally in their houses, backyards, streets and schools. We need to have human beings who are oriented that way from their earliest memories.

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

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

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

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.