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

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

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

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.

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.