I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.

Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.

The United States must keep a low profile in Vietnam so we can negotiate its neutralization like we did in Laos .

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, 
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover, 
yet you worry what people are saying.

Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.

Let go of everything that you hold onto, which does not serve you anymore. Be light, walk faster.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara – one of the great prophets of Christian "Liberation theology".

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me.

I'm so much more famous than I am financially successful. I mean, I live in a three-room apartment. I mostly make free videos on my couch. But I am fine.

The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness.

Don't date a woman with satin sheets on her bed (she didn't put them there just for you).

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.