Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.