Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

The goal of socialism is communism.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.It is really that simple.And that hard.

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.

There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance.

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

I really just try to focus every day on delivering the most honest portrayal I can and let everything else take care of itself.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.