I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

She was an aging singer who had to take every note above 'A' with her eyebrows.

Every group spends more when its income grows.

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

There is no problem so bad that you cannot make it worse

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther