For a leader to pick his own successor is a feudal practice.

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.

It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.

The first two tracks were pop songs from the 1970s, sung in Danish in a style that was best described as Abba without joy.

No level of success is ever too great to stop striving and thriving.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.

She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.