The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, ‘Henry, have you made your peace with God?’ Thoreau said, ‘I didn’t know we’d quarreled.’
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
When I go home and get off tour, I’d like to have a peace of mind. I like to chill. I don’t like everything to be all chaotic like how it is when I step outside, you know?
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.