It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.

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

An awareness of the need for some kind of global government is gaining ground, one in which all members of the world community would take part.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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

Life punishes those who come too late.