A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

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.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

The grace of existence is the power of giving.

Hats are like a halo of happiness.

I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.

I can never turn my back on a city that made me.

It's just a figment of the imagination.

Listening begins with being silent.

I was more worried about what other people would think rather than, you know, me. But you have got to do what is right for yourself and what you feel comfortable with.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but its true.