I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together