There is turmoil under the heavens. The prospects are excellent.

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 think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.

As I think all Americans understand on both sides of the aisle, the Social Security system as it is structured today is a pay-as-you-go system.

I have been eating poetry.

Women love an honest man.

Nothing works unless you do the work.

Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.

The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?