“If water won't smother the blaze
Father, take my tears and bestow them on the fire
see if the fires will wither.”
Source: No Women in Poetry ไม่มีหญิงสาวในบทกวี
“In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.”
“At time of peace, we should love one another.
At war, we should set our minds as the hunters.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more peaceful, better place where success in all forms is abundant and available to all.”
Source: A Gift to my Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing
“Though all the guns be silenced,
each soldier in his home,
There is no peace till Love comes,
till the meek may safely roam.”
Source: The Washington Poems
“Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, please. Or Mr. Bacchus. Or Lord Bacchus. Or, sometimes, Oh-My-Gods-Please-Don’t-Kill-Me, Lord Bacchus.”
Source: The Mark of Athena
“Do they do this in California?" he asked.
"You'd get arrested for disturbing the peace."
He thought for a moment, and said, "We don't have any peace.”
Source: Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction
“Peace begins with you: your thoughts, actions, and beliefs, in this moment. When you shift your perspective, you transform your experience.”
Source: Quiet the Itty Bitty Shitty Committee: Five Self-Love Tools to Silence Your Inner Critic and Reclaim Your Worth
“Braulio rises and extends his hands, making peace.
"No hay pedo," he says, the absurd lower-class slang for "There's no trouble here," which can only be translated as "There is no fart between us.”
Source: Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction