They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life n' good health, n' passin' six weeks tests. . . these are real valuable to somebody.
Only powerful people have liberty.
To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.
An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.
The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit. . . they are just a heap of loose sand. . . Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.
Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one.
If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.
The BEST training program in the entire world will be a DISMAL FAILURE if people fail to hold up their end of the deal. The success of ANY training program is ultimately the trainee's responsibility.
If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done. '
Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.
An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.