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

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.