The lessons from the peace process are clear whatever life throws at us our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
Mr. President prime ministers let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation to the day when two states Palestine and Israel can live together side by side in peace and security.
Little things seem nothing but they give peace like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
We travel together passengers on a little spaceship dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil all committed for our safety to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary it is always an evil never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
If civilization is to survive we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples of all kinds to live together in the same world at peace.
I can promise you that women working together - linked informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially people would question but once patriotism got stirred up the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
So when I do Chinese cooking I mix everything together then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.