We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

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.

Love life. Live your life with joy so you may fill the world with joy. Let no one leave your presence without feeling the joy of life.

...whatever God found worth creating we can find worth studying.

Life is like a ocean, jump right on.

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Lie down on the floor and keep calm.

Everybody likes their coffee different.

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart.