"Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors." — Pearl S. Buck

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

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

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.