All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.

The Kingdom of God is about peace, love, joy and righteousness

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.

I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.

Patience is the mother of will.

Despite Russia's move to raise interest rates this week, the value of the ruble has continued to crash. Russia's economy is so bad, Edward Snowden had to put government secrets on Craigslist.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.