It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

The good old days are now.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

If we are to tempt fate, then let us not be cowards about it.

It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

Never depend on one action.

Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.