Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.