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

For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.