Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

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.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.

I'm big on the inside, which makes up for a lot.

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

I like to set realistic goals for myself, not outrageous ones.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

I define ministry as what you've went through. I believe it takes somebody to go through something to be able to minister to something.

They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.