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

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.