Most mothers kiss and scold together.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

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

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

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.