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

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.

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

Change happens at the level of the individual

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

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

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