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

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.'

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.

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

Celebrate differences, give love, and more love. Anything short is a rigidity that cuts both ways and spawns odium and ire

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

There will never be another like the other. A mother remains like no other... the same with friends and foes. Nothing replaces the other.

Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.

Welcome to your body.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.