Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.

If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

Group meditation according to Jon Kabat

I did not feel very patriotic. I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were being killed. We were terrorizing the North Vietnamese with our enormous Air Force. They had no Air Force at all. They were a little pitiful country and we were terrorizing them with our bombs. And no, I did not feel proud at all.

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.