I will never give up politics. I've tried to give it up three times, but I never made it. Politics mobilizes me. I won't last long if I give it up.

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.

He will love only once - but it will be for always.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.

It's more difficult getting up early in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas.

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally.

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.

Wit has as few true judges as painting.