Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.