Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

A poet must learn to wage war.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.