Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

Education enhances the power of experience and the beauty of life.

You can be satisfied in life because you have and are fulfilling your important mission in life

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me.

My excuse for everything is that I grew up in Florida.

When I was 10, I beat up the school bully. His arms were in casts. That's what gave me the courage.

To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.