When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

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.

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

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

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.

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

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.