If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

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

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

Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the goddess of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world.

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