Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?

No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

Let some people get rich first.

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

Reason is powerless when we express love with empathy and kindness.

I’m going to kill you, you know.

I miss the thrill of your self-destructive heart that melts in the sun like chocolate, bittersweet and incandescent.

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

My mom taught me not to talk about money.

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.