Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

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.

Make enthusiasm a way of life. Make optimism a way of success. Make gratitude a way of happiness.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

Love obeys no laws other than its own.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.

People can be quite bullish with their opinions. That does not mean they have their finger on the pulse. It just means they value their own opinion.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.