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

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

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

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members