Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said he wished the Pope a "very peaceful retirement".
And yet the America I report on is open and generous, charitable, decent and largely very peaceful.
"The quiet, very peaceful person coming in and out of the mosque, I couldn't believe he could have done this, " Sheikh Shaker Elsayed told CNN.
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And as you note, this is a very peaceful community, and it is a horrific thing when this kind of event takes place in and around a house of worship of any kind.
"It very quiet, it's very serene and peaceful, " says Larry Koch, a retired airline pilot who lives in the mountains above Malibu.
So, I wish you all a happy, healthy, peaceful and very successful 2012.
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The idea is that children can heal through participation in art and music and even, very simply, through the peaceful passage of time.
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"We get fire once in a while, but most of the time it's really quiet and we get the occasional Santa Ana winds come rushing down those canyons at about 60, 70 miles an hour, but it's so peaceful around here, it's very nice and it's worth it, definitely worth it, " says Mr Koch.
So I want to be very clear in calling upon the Egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protestors.
Thank you very much for joining us this morning, we, we hope you have a peaceful day.
Mr ElBaradei said it was "very important for the IAEA to come to a conclusion that the Iran programme is for peaceful purposes".
Mr Makhashev, who is said to be very close to Mr Maskhadov, reaffirmed that Chechnya's leadership "are ready for a peaceful dialogue".
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