Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

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.

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