Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

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

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

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

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.