If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.