Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

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.

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire

I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people's minds.

You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience - what they see, hear, think, and believe - will determine the future course for the nation.

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

The least of the work of learning is done in classrooms.