When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when he withdraws.

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.

Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.

It had to be the hardest thing, even if he’d never known it himself – to accept that the ones you loved would find their own way home.

There are no gods, only men.

As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man.

I am that person in front of whom the most difficult conditions of life are lost.

In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.