The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

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.

You do care, you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it all.

You've got to hide your love away. You can't just hide your feelings. You have to destroy them. Kill them before they kill you.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution

I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

To give you an idea how well I was doing at the time I quit, I was the only one who knew I quit.

Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.