But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

So I resort back to such ideology: we all have a calling. We all have an ultimate purpose. On that is laid before us by destiny or one that is positioned in the crosshairs of our long-term goals.

The things I can't do are the things I have yet to learn.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint and he understands ours then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.

Forewarn'd, forearm'd.

When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.

I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?