When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.

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.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Good leaders make heroes of others.

What do you call a slap that's waiting an inch away from your cheek refusing to back away? A caress

Hell freezing over? I don't know. But the devil's definitely wearing a sweater.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.

I believe in having a vision for the future but living each day at a time.

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.