To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.