It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

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.

We should be selfless in our practice as believers

In his life there was only one woman. The other one.

I can't remember what I really felt. Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions.

Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great

Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.

Now before I work out, I think, 'I love exercise,' and it works.

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.

You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.