You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

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.

Eye reads what is unwritten.

Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.

I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from that background.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.

I think I average one good sulk a week.

I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.