Change happens at the level of the individual

To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.

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.

More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have this understanding communicate it to policy-makers and more particularly, start implementing it in their own lives and localities, change will start to happen.

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

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.