If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?

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.

Hope does not leave without being given permission.

The walls of hell are coated with arrogance, and the floor is covered with pride.

Poetry is a disease vector. Like malaria.

At least I don't look like a Christmas tree.""You look like the star atop the tree.

Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and that's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.