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

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.

an artist is always seeking revelation.

We must have hope or starve to death.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.