I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. 

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. 

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. 

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. 

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.

I am still not at all in favour of offering any defence. Even if the court had accepted that petition submitted by some of my co-accused regarding defence, etc., I would not have defended myself.