A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

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

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.