Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.

Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do

The trouble with 'a place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places.

To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.

Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.