The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

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.

Multitudes speak of their first love

I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail.

Appearances often are deceiving.

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

I did not get a million-dollar or multimillion-dollar loan from my dad.

I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

Homosexuals are like Judas: They look good in a robe, and their kisses are legendary.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.