Let one thousand flowers bloom.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.