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

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.

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

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

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

If one does not act, one cannot understand.