Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!

Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.

Loneliness can make you feel that you have a kingdom in darkness.

A house in the middle of nowhere always reminds us our Earth’s position in the universe!

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

The downside to celebrity is when you make it a 24 hour thing. I think celebrity is about turning it on and turning it off.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.