As long as musicians keep making music, we will survive.

My camera’s zoom lens takes me places I could never walk myself. Compassion does the same.

If we allowed ourselves to really see the wonders around us, we wouldn't be able to stand it.

If we replaced our readiness to condemn and retaliate with a willingness to understand and tolerate, peace would replace war.

The heartbeat of the drum cuts across all ethnic and racial divides.

Justice wears many faces.

Whenever science is politicized, our planet and its inhabitants are put at risk.

Every day is Earth Day.

I never could understand why people call a yellow dandelion a weed and a yellow tulip a flower. To me they are equally beautiful.

Because we can’t imagine peace, does that mean it isn’t possible? Can a caterpillar imagine becoming a butterfly?

Our flying dreams give us a taste of another reality. Dreams of peace can do the same.

If you could see into the heart of Truth, would you dare?

How do you stop a runaway train? Do you have to wait for it to derail itself or can you impeach it?

Do trees speak to you too?

I breathe through the soles of my feet. Kick off your shoes and join me!

People sometimes ask when I became an activist. It all began at age eight when I caught my mother and sister dying Easter eggs. It wasn’t much of a leap to realize if those whom I most loved and trusted could lie to me about the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, then governmental leaders whom I did not even know could certainly lie to me about their reasons for doing things.

Our first whiff of spring’s perfume can give us all we need to keep on keepin’ on.

How each of us responds to the actions being committed in our name by our government determines our complicity.

Peace-makers must first be chaos-recognizers. In order to transform reality, we must see it for what it is.

For some, the word "peace" belongs to those persons they consider unpatriotic liberals. Perhaps it's time to find another word that everyone can embrace. Any ideas?

You may wonder why I say Tai Shan reminds me of the Dali Lama. It's because they both make grown men and women giggle. Isn't that the sign of a true peacemaker?

Our human capacity to love unconditionally has made hatred a vestigial structure, useless as a tail and gills.

We must keep speaking truth to power even if no one seems to be listening.

I cannot look at a spring-green tree without smiling. Can you?

Sometimes we must travel outside our comfort zone to find peace.

When a nation's leaders are transparent in their dealings, truth shines through every decision.

Gratitude is the most natural form of worship.

We are most innocent before we even know the word.

When we focus on peace, everything extraneous disappears.

Hope resides in hearts that recognize today as yesterday’s dream.