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

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

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

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

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

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

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

The heart is the window to the soul, the portal through which we can understand the desires of the spirit.

They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere.

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

Between a dead-hero and a living-no one, always prefer the latter, always prefer the life! Being no one is infinitely better than being dead!

All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.