In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

The Gods on the death of his wife Yang Kai-hui I lost my proud poplar and you your willow As poplar and willow they soar straight up into the ninth heaven and ask the prisoner of the moon, Wu Kang' what is there. He offers them wine from the cassia tree. The lonely lady on the moon, Chang 0, spreads her vast sleeves and dances for these good souls in the unending sky. Down on earth a sudden report of the tiger's defeat. Tears fly down from a great upturned bowl of rain.

At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction and the favorable conditions constitute the secondary aspect. But through their efforts the revolutionaries can overcome the difficulties step by step and open up a favorable new situation, thus a difficult situation yields place to a favorable one.

It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.

Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.

You have never suffered-how can you be a leftist?