New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well.

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.

Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti were barely able to write. The first emperors of the Tang and Sung dynasties were crude. Genghis Khan, man of his epoch and favored by heaven, knew only how to hunt the great eagle. They are all gone. Only today are we men of feeling.