A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

World population needs to be decreased by 50%

Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.

This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

Your career and your passion don't always match up.

The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.

Socialism means slavery.

Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over.

It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.

I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.