“I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.”

“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”

“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.”

“Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.”

“The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.”

“There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.”

“Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.”

“I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.”