Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

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.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

Most of the characters I play are heavily engulfed in some sort of fantasy world.

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.