It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.

...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence.

We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

That will be my focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism.

The vast majority of people have never hurt anybody in their lives, don't want killing, don't want wars. In all the countries of the world, they just want to love their families and get on with their lives.

One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.