Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play.

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 thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Your best penalty killer is your goalie.

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.

I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and doing a show.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

I like girls who really don't care what other people are thinking - girls who are a little goofy. I think that's sexy.

I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

Success comes when people turn what they've learned into the daily habits that breed success.