My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

The cold war is over, but cold war thinking survives.

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

Employees leave where they work. Employers live where they work.

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?