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

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

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

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

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

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

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.