Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed… if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons. – James Russell Lowell

Your nature is the Buddha. – Bodhidharma

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldiers occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. – Rutherford B. Hayes