All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

It [Bach's cello suites] is like a great diamond, " said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, "with so many different cuts that reflect light in so many different ways.

Do life soaring

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).

Kiss the blackest part of my behind.

... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.

My main focus is on my game.