The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

One faces the future with one's past.

What seems new is only new to us.