I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.
The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.
Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.
The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where learning nonviolence means that we dedicate our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment that the force of love, the force of truth, the force of justice, and the force of organized resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane and the force of fists, guns, armies, and bombs insane.
Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.
If I'm vice president of the United States and Donald Trump is president, we're going to put the safety and security of the American people first.
If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.
I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.
If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror. . . I want to be able to look at my father in 10 years' time and say, 'I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of me. '