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.

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.

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

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.

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

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