The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.

Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.