In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

Be not deceived God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.

At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.

I have an incredible team of collaborators that work with me on all my films. I adore them and respect them tremendously. I can't wait to begin production on my next film so we can be reunited.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

I like metal because it's complicated, technical, brutal and I like the challenge.

Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.

I don't want one play to define me as a player.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.