In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.

You hurt my feelings." He shoots me a wounded look. "I wasn't aware that you had any.

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish. If we didn't, we might think about things.

Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician

I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.

Love fattens on smooth words.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.