I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the 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.

Work and pray rather instead of watching and wishing.

The true cost of following your dreams isn't what you sacrifice when you chase them, it's what you lose when you don't

Think of this as the highest paying job you never applied for.

A leader would think that most people overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

Happy are you who love for you are loved by God! Alleluia! Amen!

If you've had a good time playing the game you're a winner even if you lose.

I tell so many lies, sweetheart," he said. "which one specifically?

Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.

It was then given me to know that the power of revitalization of my body was mine, and I, who had been pronounced dead by man, lived strongly in the body.

Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.