Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

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.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardee's.

Being nervous is a waste of time.

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

I know what it's like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it's gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences.

Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!

I sighed and gestured toward him. "I'll take him." In an undertone, I added, "Don't let me down, Zmey.