Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

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.

With my love I will touch you.With my love I will heal you.With my love I will surround you.With my love I will melt you.

My idea of Christmas is love

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

... and what happened next?

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Politics is about realities, not logic.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.