Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.

Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.

The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.

The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. This is reality, not a threat.

The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature.

In order to develop the country's sports in line with the great leaders' ideas and plan of developing Juche-based sports, our Party directs great efforts to the work of the sports sector.

Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.

You deserve the love your soul craves for.Don't settle.

Actually there were only two forms of existence, I reflected: one that was tied to a place and one that wasn't. Both had always existed. Neither could be chosen.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.

We're going to be the underdogs again in Istanbul on the 25th, but that suits us. (on the Champions league Final)

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.