Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care

It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.

I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen.

For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.