?No one has ever seen God; but as long as we love one another God will live in us and his love will be complete in us? (I John 4:12).

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"When you have found your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall." ~C.S. Lewis

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." ~Aesop

"Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards." ~R.A. Dickson

"Don?t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don?t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." ~Albert Camus

"Try a thing you haven?t done three times: once, to get over the fear of doing it, twice, to learn how to do it, and a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not." ~ Virgil Thomson

"Hating a person is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat." ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is." ~Albert Camus

"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it." ~Noam Chomsky

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners." ~Albert Camus

"It is always more valuable to report the truth." ~Jean-Paul Sartre

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." ~George Orwell

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." ~Character Salvor Hardin speaks these words in "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov

"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." ~Jimmy Carter

"There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat." ~Jimmy Carter

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." ~Thomas Jefferson

"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war." ~Winston Churchill

"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder." ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." ~Albert Camus

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." ~Albert Einstein

"All mankind...being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions." ~John Locke

"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap." ~Ronald Reagan

"People do not make wars; governments do." ~Ronald Reagan

"Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing." ~Ronald Reagan

"A people free to choose will always choose peace." ~Ronald Reagan

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant." ~Aesop

"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism." ~Dorothy Thompson

"War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures." ~Congressman Ron Paul

"Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself." ~Lao Tzu

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one." ~Albert Einstein

"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public." ~Noam Chomsky

"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants." ~Albert Camus

"We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen." ~Jacobo Timerman

"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world." ~Benjamin Harrison,1888

"We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us." ~Francis John McConnell

"War is the tool of small-minded scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed." ~John Cory

"To the wicked, everything serves as pretext." ~Voltaire

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." ~Ronald Reagan

"The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people." ~Ron Paul

"Force always attracts men of low morality." ~Albert Einstein

"Our nation is somewhat sad, but we?re angry. There?s a certain level of blood lust, but we won?t let it drive our reaction. We?re steady, clear-eyed and patient, but pretty soon we?ll have to start displaying scalps." ~George W. Bush

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." ~Howard Zinn

"How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business." ~Albert Einstein

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it." ~Malcolm X

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." ~Albert Einstein

"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all." ~John Quincy Adams

"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." ~Clarence Darrow

"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"An eye for an eye makes us all blind." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Today, on the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the United States declares its strong solidarity with torture victims across the world. Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere. We are committed to building a world where human rights are respected and protected by the rule of law. Freedom from torture is an inalienable human right. The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, ratified by the United States and more than 130 other countries since 1984, forbids governments from deliberately inflicting severe physical or mental pain or suffering on those within their custody or control. Yet torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit. Beating, burning, rape, and electric shock are some of the grisly tools such regimes use to terrorize their own citizens. These despicable crimes cannot be tolerated by a world committed to justice." ~President George W. Bush statement, June 26, 2003

"We do not torture." ~President George W. Bush, November 7, 2005

The UN International Day of Peace