I am mentally bifocal.

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

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

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.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

the heart never grows old.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.