More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday 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.

The only way to be productive is to realize we don't HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.

Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.

You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.

People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.