There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

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

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

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.

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

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.

I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off. But when I talk with God He lifts me up where I can see clearly, where everything has a distinct contour.