"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts."

"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole."

"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend."

"I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'"

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."

"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults."