Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.
I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.
