I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

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.

Jealousy is not a result of love. It is a result of crossed relationship boundaries. Love and relationships should not be confused.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals and then a few that punish them.

Being such a tomboy growing up, that was one thing that changed me as a person, as well. It broadened me, like me cracking myself open in a certain way.

The return makes one love the farewell.

The past is no farther away than your pillow.

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

Remember that almost everything looks better after a good night's sleep.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk.

I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.