Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

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.

The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting older.

Nowadays, the concept of love is greatly trampled because there is too much permissibility.

My mind reels with sarcastic replies!

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

Me and my band, we love playing live, and I think it shows. We have one of the better live shows in the state, and I think it's because we just love playing live.

I'm having an amazing time teaching through the lives of people much like Jesus did.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.