“Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.”

Source: "In-Depth with Loving the Silent Tears Guest Speaker: George Chakiris", GodsDirectContact.org (2012) http://www.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/eng/news/211/sr_42.htm.

Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

Nobel lecture (1989)
Context: Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility. In that state of mind you can deal with situations with calmness and reason, while keeping your inner happiness. That is very important. Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.

2000s, 2001, Invasion of Afghanistan (October 2001)

Annie Besant, An Autobiography Chapter XIV

1963, American University speech
Context: I have, therefore, chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived — yet it is the most important topic on earth: world peace. What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children — not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women — not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.

Undated <br class="br">Source: Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prem_Rawat.

Homilies on Timothy http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf113/Page_429.html, Homily VII