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

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.

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

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

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.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.