Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

The happiest people are not those who have the best things, but those who enjoy the life and get the most of it with what they have.

In 1962, Popjak and I left the service of the Medical Research Council and became co-directors of the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology set up by Shell Research Ltd.

It's not always going to cost money to turn a parish into a more welcoming parish. But it does take a willingness to change a lot of assumptions.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

We'd rather have faithful Jews, Baptists or Buddhists than some of the Catholics who nearly run you over in the parking lot after Mass.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

...they watched the humans disappear. They watched them dissolve, like moving tablets in the humid air.

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

Ask 'why' five times about every matter.

I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.