Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Nature is neutral.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

Making peace is harder than making war.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.