It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

All birth is unwilling.

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

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.