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

The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must assume some aspects of a world government.

Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.

God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.

My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.