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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.
Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?
Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.
No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.
starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.
Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.
Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.