Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

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.

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.

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

The world from it self is a brutal one.

Unity is a beast in itself. If a wolf sees two little boys playing in the woods on one side, and a big strong man on the other, he will go to the one who stands alone.

Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.

I am just like any other girl, a sucker for romance.

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

That's because you loved me. You just didn't know it yet." "You didn't know it either. You were just as blind as me.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

I've been writing forever, 20 years.

Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.

I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.