Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

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