...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 radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?

We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.

In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force their governments to sit down, it can happen.

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.