The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should involve these as well. Man is shaped to a great extent by his surroundings. Our physical nature, our mental health, our culture and institutions, our opportunities for challenge and fulfillment, our very survival - all of these are directly related to and affected by the environment in which we live. They depend upon the continued healthy functioning of the natural systems of the Earth.

But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.