In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and f...
The very young are not ready for much knowledge. It must be given to them slowly, in proportion to their years of life. One must first live before he can safely know.
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung
It is better to live than to die, and peace is better than war, and though there are some who deny this as robbers do, the truth remains what it is.
I am entirely happy except that I feel the need of more knowledge of some sort. What sort I do not know myself. Perhaps it is not so much knowledge as more understanding of that which you already know...
We must have hope or starve to death.
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
By some 220 years Gutenberg’s lead-cast printing type in Germany in 1450.
You see how loving kindness conquers fear, even in animals. Let this lesson be engraved upon your hearts.
The gift he had been given was sometimes heavy to bear, the ability always to understand why the other person was as he was. Wounded, yes, but never angry, and there were times when he longed to feel...
Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Now it has been said from ancient times that all women who weep may be divided into three sorts. There are those who lift up their voices and their tears flow and this may be called crying; there are...
None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God.
Long ago she had learned that to seem to yield is always stronger than to show resistance, and to acknowledge a fault quickly is always to show an invincible rectitude.
I think not everyone can see the whole picture. It has long been said we each see what we look for. You and I, we look at land and think of seed and harvests. A builder looks at the same land and thin...
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.