You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

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.

Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all.p 60

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.

For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

I haven't been a leader - not at all.

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .