We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

I will age for you, if it pleases you. I will match you, wrinkle for wrinkle, grey hair for grey hair, crease for crease, wrinkle for wrinkle. You will be so beautiful when you are old.

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.

I suddenly realized that a bunch of my friends needed babysitters and vowed to start screening my calls.

There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.