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.

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.