A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.