The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

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.

.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

When anything is possible, how do you choose?

If the world is unjust, get drunk, wave a sword, then cut off heads.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I don't like it when black characters become white in movies, or things like that.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.