To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.