Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica, have realized those words by Erasmus. Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.

How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through military victories makes so many men lose their reason, forget all shame, and betray history.