The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence

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.

If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.

The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

I was taught that we should look after the beam in our own eye before searching for the mote in someone else's.

The audience's expectations are ever-present.

Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.

When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.

Any shoe which protects your feet in a hard road is a beautiful shoe!

But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.

I try to hold it in until I get on the ice, then in front of the net sometimes I'll pass gas.