You have never suffered-how can you be a leftist?

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.

You are not as insignificant as you have often been told, nor are you any more significant than you have often told yourself.

Nothing brings home closer than going home...

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

Encourage means to put courage into, and discourage is to take courage away. Don't be a courage thief.

I have always liked working "upstream" long before health problems hit the body.

Having been here before and lost to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

He smiles then, and even though it is well past midnight, its as if the sun has just come out.