Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

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.

I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

I just simply am not a dater. I think I have been on three official dates in my life. They are like job interviews and I refuse to be romantically employed.

This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.

I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.