People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

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.

There is a huge difference between work and a job

In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.

To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.