Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

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'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

Don’t depend on luck to solve problems.

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables,for that matter.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.