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

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.