Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

Socialism with a human face.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

Neither pathway is correct.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

A man is merely to implement the law. He is there not to decide what to implement as we already have the law. We don't have a legislative body.

I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.

If you are deeply connected with yourself, with your energy, staying awake to yourself in the moment, other prisoners tend to leave you alone.

Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.