“You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'”

“If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.”

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”

“Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.”

“I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.”

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

“The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.”

“As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.”

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.”