We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

Thanks to President Obama, I am able to get medical treatment in the USA for the long term effects of very high altitude sickness and unnatural electromagnetic radiation exposures.

A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.

Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

I look back, and I've got a couple of films, and I'm happy.

Time seems to slow down for me when I focus on staying in the moment and that helps me maintain a sense of balance.

The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.

I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.