At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

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

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.