We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

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.

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.

When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you, you will know without a doubt that you are headed in the right direction.

Later she came to realise that under one reality there’s always another. And another one under that.

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.

You know what? I did! I impressed myself just making it.

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a Broadway stage at 11 years old? It's so far in the distance now.

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.