The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.

When the enemy attacks you, this means that you are on the right road.

A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.

The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.

Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.

Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.

My emotional state is determined by where my attention goes.

Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous." (pg. 18)

There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated.

Saylor and Beau worked together not like a piston head turned by a camshaft, but like the torque created from such synchronicity.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

What kind of wedding do you want?" "The one with a groom.

Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.