Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.

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

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.