You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful,

We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

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