I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day.

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings.

We thought that the proletariat would eventually run the world. But it is the Americans who have assumed that position... The American people have changed.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

Every man's entitled to hope.

May God's richest blessings be upon you both today and throughout the year and may those blessings flow through you to touch the lives of everyone you meet.

Most kids dream of scoring the perfect goal. I've always dreamed of stopping it.

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound