Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

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.

Life is something which can't be defined, but can only be celebrated.

Health is a perishable thing.

I want to wake dead people to live alive". Seriously, I can make you living.

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.