To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.

The people you stay around with can either make or mar you

When I believe in nothing, I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

I am a foodie. I'm not afraid to say it.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.