Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

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

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.