Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward.

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.