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After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.
John James Audubon on peace

But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.
Lester B. Pearson on peace

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
Brendan Fraser on peace

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
Samuel Smiles on peace

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
Gerald Jampolsky on peace

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso on peace

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
Mika Waltari on peace

I really am a woman at peace.
Laura Schlessinger on peace

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
Yahya Jammeh on peace

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
Paul Theroux on peace

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.
Paul Theroux on peace

If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
Larry Hagman on peace

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
Josh McDowell on peace

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Minoru Yamasaki on peace

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
Bernard Baruch on peace

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
Sargent Shriver on peace

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
Sargent Shriver on peace

The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.
Joe Nichols on peace

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.
John Bolton on peace

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Dorothy Thompson on peace