In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.

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.

Above all, everything was expensive. Kids are idiots and slaves to desire. We didn't know what we really wanted, so we wanted everything.

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.

My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.

I like the South because of the people. They are loyal. Once they love a team, they're fans forever.

Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

My favorite question that is asked only of women is, 'What do you do with yourself all day?' The only possible answer is, 'Make nuclear bombs in my bathroom. Just little ones, though.

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.

Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.