The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.