For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.

Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.

The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

The whole world is one family.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

Only powerful people have liberty.

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.

People want their 15 minutes and are willing to do anything to get it.

There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth.

Emotions are captive to reality

Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.