Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance

The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?

The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".

The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.