Ultimately we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves more and more peace and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

First keep peace with yourself then you can also bring peace to others.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

The soldier above all others prays for peace for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

A mind at peace a mind centered and not focused on harming others is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Do not overrate what you have received nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

Politics is too partisan and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

You know writing is really difficult and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others so much and I envy it.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists but simply announce that they are don't have the patience to make art.

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

There can never be such a thing as a free market because it is human nature to cheat monopolize and buy off others so as to corner the market.

All all is theft all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and without doubt the most agreeable one.

Good breeding is the result of good sense some good nature and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I admire people who are by nature kind and fair to others.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.