Top 200 Quotes & Sayings by Vietnamese Authors

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

We must choose dialogue over confrontation, and peaceful settlement of disputes over unilateral acts of imposition.

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

To see a doll of yourself is very weird and very neat at the same time.

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

As a kid, I always wanted to be like Spielberg and to make wonderful movies. Even when I was making 'Indiana Jones,' I was looking at how he would come up with these amazing shots and how he would choreograph the blocking and all that. So I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.

Don't listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do.

We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking.

I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese.

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

We're always open to working with other writers, producers, and contributors for channelAPA. In hindsight, the goal is to develop our content and connect with people who have similar visions as we do.

Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

One of the main objective of our visit to India is to discuss with the Indian leaders and set out concrete,effective measures and direction aimed to deepen and add more substances to the Vietnam-India strategic partnership and translate potentials into reality in the interest of the two countries' people.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

We need to balance between democracy and law and order.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

Do not let ASEAN become a playing card for the competition among major countries.

The only thing I didn't like as a kid was I was required to do a minimum of 3 hours of schoolwork every day, and there was a tutor on set.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

The politburo have seriously self-criticized and honestly apologize to the Central Committee for the shortcomings in party building, cases of moral decay among party members and cadres.

As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.

I had to do something for the country.

And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.

The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.

Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

Like in any relations between two countries in the world, Vietnam and the U.S. have differences on a number of issues such as perception on democracy, human rights and trade.

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

I put my heart in my work.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.

We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California.

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work.

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

I think that 20 years ago, not too many people would imagine a meeting - interesting meeting, a substantive meeting between the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the President of the United States.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.