I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.

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.

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?

Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

It is really a tightrope sort of thing, living.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

I've been taking pictures since I was probably 16. I'm 54, and I can't believe how excited I am.