Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve 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.

I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.

I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.

We shouldn't feel insulated just because water flows freely from our taps.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it," he said.

The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.

In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.