I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

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

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

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

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.