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

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

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.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

If you can accomplish any great task being absorbed in it and that too without any expectations, believe me, that one act of yours will make you a "historical person".

Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.

We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

Great leaders make people feel important.

Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after.

Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all .

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

In prêt-à-porter now we understandably need to make the collection satisfy the big market more, so couture is extra special.