Turn your wounds into wisdom.

The Muslims have as everyone else says the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying though is that they should listen to public opinion they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

The nature of catastrophe is after all reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins destroys wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

The soldier above all others prays for peace for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Yes we love peace but we are not willing to take wounds for it as we are for war.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist particularly among our veterans and to move forward with a positive relationship ... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.