I am mentally bifocal.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

One faces the future with one's past.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.