I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

When I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ´there is no god´.

You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict.

Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China - also were the original five countries to have nuclear weapons.