When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

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

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

What seems new is only new to us.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

Love alone could waken love.