Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

I voted for you during your last election.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

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

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

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

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

Women hold up half the sky.

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.