Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

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.

Every soul has the potential of a great spirit.

You will make better decisions once you begin thinking long-term rather than short-term.

I wish you did return my regard, " he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.

I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.

If we're going to be successful in taking on the billionaire class, we need a strong national grassroots movement.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't.