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

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.