If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

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.

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

You don't manifest dreams without taking chances.

The purpose of life is to fulfill the will of God

Fox taught me how to sing and dance

When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.

My only hope lies in my despair.

President Obama had beer with four unemployed construction workers. And Obama asked the guys what was it like to lose their jobs, and they were like, 'Oh, you'll see.'

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

When you are completely satisfied with what you have made, you're pretty much done as a director. So when that happens, that'll sort of be the end.