I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

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.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.