It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

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.

Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage.

I am ready to burn up but not ready to rust down.

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

Integrity is the value we set on ourselves.

The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.