When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

The body of truth has a much larger data base than the conscience of lies.

Pray to God.

All that is not prose passes for poetry.

The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]

The evolution in each of us isn't separate from each other.

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.

Great offices will have great talents.