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

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.

Your inner essence can innovate and inspire. Harness that dynamism and embrace the positive change you can create.

By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.

Heat madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.

We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.