Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.
He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world. . . all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there before him, and magnified into one person who by chance, or fate--call it what you will--happened to be me.