It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so 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.

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.

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

So I fight for a Father who I never loved, against a brother that I did. I defend an empire that never wanted me against an army that would have taken me in a heartbeat.

The world is with you.

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

Without dreams, there could be no despair.

When people get to speak about themselves and the things that matter to them, on their own terms, we see them as who they are. They can't be reduced to objects of derision.