I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing. You look at all these different movements going on: the environment movement, the interfaith movement, the human rights movement, the youth movement, and the arts movement.

...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.

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.

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.

We really can do things in support of each other very, very quickly.

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

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.