Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.