Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.

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.

I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.

My parents created their own war.

You want everything to go right. You've just got to let yourself be free and have good energy.

Seeming to do is not doing.