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

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

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.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

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