"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."

"Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one."

"The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them."

"Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs."

"At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck."

"Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity."

"I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part."

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves,  By each let this be heard, Some do it with abitter look,  Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss,  The brave man with a sword!"