Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

Seek truth from facts.

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

It should be pointed out that some of the things done after the arrest of the Gang of Four were inconsistent with Chairman Mao's wishes, for instance, the construction of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. He had proposed in the fifties that we should all be cremated when we died and that only our ashes be kept, that no remains should be preserved and no tombs built.

I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

At the higher stage of communism, when the productive forces will be greatly developed and the principle "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" will be practised, personal interests will be acknowledged still more and more personal needs will be satisfied.