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

When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a feeling of "Help! What on earth can I, just one person, do about this?" Take heart. That's a sane response. It's the basis for a whole new attitude to world problems, where change at the level of the individual is more and more recognised as essential to change in huge world systems.

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

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.

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

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