It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.

No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

Let some people get rich first.

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

Centuries had passed since the dawn of science, yet men offer riches in the name of God.

And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.

The last time Earth was 1°C warmer than today, sea levels were 20 feet higher.

Repetition is the father of learning.

The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.