I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

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.

If you don't like the consequences of change then you have chosen to stay the same.

The barbeque is the root of all civilization

As long as they don’t harm the environment, pay taxes, and don't do it in my bed, it’s none of my business.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Music is about your feelings.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

God knows, we don't want prayer.

Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic.