In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

If we seek for the best times to act, we may missed some opportunities. We must seize every moment and make it great.

You are unique with special skills for a specific mission on earth.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.

Homosexual behavior is and will always remain before the Lord an abominable sin. Calling it something else by virtue of some political definition does not change that reality.

I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

Optimism, that is healthy in its application, will inevitably result in better physical and emotional health.

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.