Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

Unity and victory are synonymous.

It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

When you are ready to be done with the day, praise yourself with love and kindness for the hard work and accomplishments made during the day.

I've been fighting my whole life.

He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]

Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.

I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn't think I could do it as a living.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

I do like to dress up and look nice, and I'm inspired by people who do the same - people who express themselves through how they dress.

The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two.