Written and compiled by Barbara Paulding

• Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein
• Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. - Nolan Bushnell
• We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace within ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace. - The Dalai Lama
• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. - John Lennon
• Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. - Roald Dahl
• Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away. - Robert Fulghum
• But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all our people. - John F. Kennedy
• Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it. - E. F. Schumacher
• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank
• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. - Viktor Frankl
• I believe that music can be an inspirational force in all our lives - that its eloquence and the depth of its meaning are all-important,...that music comes from the heart and returns to the heart - that music is forever growing - that music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man. - Leopold Stokowski
• World peace begins with inner peace. What is reflected on the outer is merely a mirror of what is on the inner. Trying to change the world without working to change consciousness is like trying to change the image in a mirror without changing the object that is being reflected. - Carol Hansen Grey
• One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matter to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these - to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both, are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do. - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility. - Nelson Mandela
• Despite all of the ghastliness that is around, human beings are those that are made for goodness. - Desmond Tutu
• Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso
• The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. - Baha'ullah
• We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. - Howard Zinn