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.

We mustn't start off with the idea that there's only militarism, invasions, and occupations. We really have to look: What are the alternatives here?

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

We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

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.