Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
We all avow to struggle for making this country a welfare state where everyone is allowed to spend life on the basis of social justice and where everyone can live in peace and honour.
Well the message I have for everyone working on peace, is that bringing results on peace can be easily entrained passively.
Working hard on peace process is a very good thing for yourself, for your region, for your country.
Negative peace is possible as long as you have a strong army.
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
I've made peace with the fact that the World Cup will not define me. Yes, it would be nice to add that to what's been a very enjoyable career, but I know it won't define me as a person or cricketer.
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
In the Middle East, it is clear that peace will never be reached without solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A two-state solution must be found and enforced.
Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.
Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.
Just as it is fire's nature to burn, it is meditation's nature to heal, to bring peace and uplift you beyond your worldly environment and transport you to a higher plane.
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty.
Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
We've learned that quiet isn't always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn't always justice.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.
You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.
My different personalities leave me in peace now.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
Blue is the color of peace. Water is blue. I like the color blue because it just puts me at peace. The patriotic symbol is blue. I just like blue.
Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle the roots of conflict and violence.
India is a country that has no direct interests in some areas of global conflict. It has very good relations with countries in conflict or countries facing difficult security situations, and I believe Indian diplomacy is very well received. India is a bridge-builder, an honest broker, and a messenger of peace.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.