It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.