One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.

I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.

When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.