We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.

History punishes those that come late to it.

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

The United States found dozens of billions of dollars for military action in Iraq, so it should certainly be able to find a few billions of dollars to get rid of weapons of mass destruction. I'll assume that since the most powerful nation - the United States - has promised to pay for much of this, then its word will be kept. If it isn't, I don't think we can have a true partnership.

You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.