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….

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being..

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

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it..

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement..

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him..

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass..

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

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 w….

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it..

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers..

For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one….

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We k….

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real demo….

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more..

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be..

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together..

Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and t….

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen..

He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolati….