The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

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.

There is no inner peace found in taking care of me and mine. It is present in attending to the needs of we and ours.

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

Never question the size of Ice Cube's balls!

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

Always someone resting there - a lone rock in the summer field

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

Choose an author as you would a friend.