There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

Any goal in life is attainable as long as one follows it consistently.

Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff.

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

Death renders all equal.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

We need to care about reality more than we care about what we want to be true about it.

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.