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

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.

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.

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

Pinecones. Little works of art. Prickly. Reminders of fall. Similar to pineapples. A sign of welcome.

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

The fact is...I'm in love with you, and I have been for some time.

Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.

The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.

What you do as president has consequences.

If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.