We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

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.

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

Some struggles are so solitary that they drown in words.

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.