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

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.

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.

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

Always invest your life in your calling and purpose

What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together

It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act.

The law of attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you FEEL.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.

There are no incurable ills.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.