My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.

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.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

The jar shall never ceased to be filled with oil.

Creativity abides no absolutes.

As I go under, I wonder if there’s a reason for art?

Dilute your arrogance with a smile.

Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

I visualize my hand raised at the end, and every thing in between is just having fun.

Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.