Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.

The most important thing is who counts the votes.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.