Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

the heart never grows old.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

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.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

We must have hope or starve to death.