If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

If one does not act, one cannot understand.

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

The sky cannot have two suns.

It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

We write our own destiny ...we become what we do.