The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.

The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.

The more we know about each other the safer we all are.

It wasn't just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

Worship comes from a thankful heart.

Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach an impasse in life.

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.

Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.

Whoever dies will be rewarded by heaven.

I am in regular contact with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe. We have met several times this year [2016].