Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.

Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

Positively Inspired Man of Purpose

Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.

If anybody ever flied to the Moon, the very next day Trippe will ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize regular service.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn't any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent!

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.