In order to grow you have to let go of all that you are and all that you know.

Even a single thread of hope is still a very powerful thing. Grab onto it with both hands and never let it go.

I can't help but feel, across oceans and vast fields we will connect again. What we share is too rare to let go of for good but sometimes we have to accept, the timing isn't right.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

I'm happy to be working with all women.