No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.