When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

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.

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

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.

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

Others can't always define your true identity. They see what they 'want' to see but beyond your mess, God sees the beauty He created and still thinks it's good!

No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.

Didn’t we all grow up understanding that bribes and payoffs - - by whatever name or rationale - - were bad. And that people were supposed to be the focal point of society, not money?

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

Dancing with life is moving into the flow of our experiences - good or bad - with a feeling of harmony, trust, guidance and love.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.