Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic." - Jim Cookson, Doctoral Student, Ashridge Business School, UK, August 2014

Whenever I write I always transport myself into the story to get a better glimpse to what I am capturing.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

Modernization means Westernization.

It's okay to stand on your own two feet and to be different, to be yourself.

I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression it makes on our souls. It reacts — or does not react — by putting it on paper.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

I've heard the rumors but you won't come clean. I guess I'm hoping it's because of me.