I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of ev...
He had long been her favorite, yet every eunuch knew that the favor of a ruler is less stable than sunlight in early spring. At any moment it can be withdrawn, and as soon can a eunuch’s head tumble f...
From the stars, she thought, doubtless all things are seen.
But somewhere I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself.
Body and soul are partners, and neither must desert the other.
The relationships between the five elements. What are the five elements? They are wood, fire, earth, metal, water. These create, and also destroy, each other....On the side of creation, wood creates f...
Want to go where my children never hear that a man’s color dooms him and that because a woman is black, she is not a woman but a female.
The Western contingent and took the two leaders captive, and then seized all who were with them. The flag was torn and stamped into the dust, the captives were imprisoned and put to torture for their...
Demands the utmost in wisdom, in attack, in endurance. Violence is simple and easy, it is the sword of the stupid and dull-witted, and it always leaves chaos. To carry on a positive revolution without...
Contempt for himself that a small piece of land should seem so important. Why, when he had poured out his silver proudly before the agent the man had scraped it up carelessly in his hands and said, He...
Why should we hate them? Because ours is the only true civilization! Even in science -- consider that we invented the sternpost rudder twelve hundred years before the Europeans did! Fore-and-aft sails...
What shall I do? she asked in a small voice. Forget your own self, he said.But all these years, she urged, I have so carefully fulfilled my duty.Always with the thought of your own freedom in your min...
Now, as they were all looking at the new moth, she, too, went to look at it. It was of a creamy yellow color, like the yellow of the lemon called Buddha's Hand, and it had long black antennae. These q...
It was the secret of her power in this house that she never allowed her will to be felt as absolute. She gave time and the promise of an end, and then she used the time to shape events to her own end.
It is easy to destroy, but it is hard to create. Do not destroy what your brother creates.
In silence they lay close, without passion, but closer than passion could bring them they lay close.
Fresh tadpoles coming out in the spring should be washed clean in cold well-water, and swallowed whole three or four days after menstruation. If a woman swallows fourteen live tadpoles on the first da...
Can one spit on a smiling face? he inquired; or he said, Vengeance cannot last a night’s sleep.
But is strength comfort for a woman?
Books he would always learn from, for people, great people, put the best of themselves into books. Books were a distillation of people. But people would be his teachers, and people were not in schoolr...