None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. - Pearl S. Buck

I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.

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.

I do not know when it is that the joy fades out of school for most children, so that they end not only by hating school but even worse, by hating books, and this is grave indeed, for in books alone is the accumulated wisdom of the whole human race, and to read no books is to deprive the self of ready access to wisdom.