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.

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

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.

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

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.

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