Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

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.

The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.

I'd follow three simple rules: 1) Never go within two kilometres of circus freaks. 2) Never go near the butcher shop in Dublith. 3) Always spend under 300 sen on snacks. That ought to keep me alive!

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.

Im a golfer and have had three holes in one.

Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.