The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

The goal of socialism is communism.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

I stood up in a flash and flushed a light shade of furious.

Most people living in the world are confused about life.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors.

Lao Tsu always points a finger directly to us. He says we must begin with ourselves. It's impossible to bring order into the world unless we bring order into ourselves.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.