If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

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.

Depression is my bestfriend

Each thinking mind is a political mind

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting

They are dead. We are dead. It is over.

I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

They hear you own up, and they learn to own up.

I love you, what star do you live on?

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.