What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

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.

I wish magic was more dramatic

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

When was the last good kiss you had?

And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

Congress is not a party which fades when not in power

Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.

I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

People don't buy lady art.