Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction

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.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.