We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God."

Everything is decided bya person's thoughts and if he is ideologically motivated, there is nothing he cannot do.

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.

The people are the masters of the revolution in each country.

The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

Money is never the cause of all evil, ignorance is!

I just don't like to ask for things.

I believe 0% is luck. I think you create your own luck, so I don't believe in luck.

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.

I'm just not the glamour type. Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don't wear magnificent clothes. I'll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything.