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.

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.

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.

There may be no secrets in small towns, but there are no strangers either.

Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.

God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

The road to your soul is through your heart.

Hunger is the mother of anarchy.

I want [Donald] Trump to send out a tweet saying that he's going to keep his campaign promises.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.